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CES 2014: New Gaming Peripherals from FEENIX and ROCCAT

January 12, 2014 Matt Ring 0

After CES 2014, it’s clear there are enough manufacturers in the gaming peripheral market to support a spin-off, maybe OCGaming.com? That definitely is not an Overclockers.com New Years resolution, so we’ll start with covering some of the new toys we saw this week.

CES 2014: Thermaltake Continues to Expand Enthusiast Level Products

January 12, 2014 Dino DeCesari 0

After our meeting with Thermaltake during CES 2014, we came away impressed with their desire to further penetrate the enthusiast market. Thermaltake showed us several prototypes of upcoming chassis and water cooling goodies they hope to bring to market in 2014. Thermaltake has also been working on a new line of digital power supplies (DPS) and software to accompany them. We also had a quick look at new keyboards, mice, and gaming headsets that should be available by Q2 2014.

CES 2014: VisionTek Unleashes Liquid Cooled R9 290 Graphics Card

January 12, 2014 Matt Ring 2

After fading from the enthusiast market over the past few years, VisionTek is back in a big way with the release of a watercooled R9 290 video card. Dubbed the CryoVenom, this GPU is the first and thus the fastest custom-built liquid cooled R9 290 on the market. The waterblock and backplate were custom-designed by EKWB, exclusively for VisionTek.

AMD R7 260 Video Card Review

January 6, 2014 Joe Shields 2

In my last single card review (AMD R9 270), I mentioned that AMD and its partners are beginning to fill in the blanks in the pricing and performance holes left by only having the 250, 260x, 270x, and 280x lines out (290/290x do not matter in this context). If you recall from my ’roundup’, the performance gaps between those cards were pretty significant, on the order of 50% between them. Today, we have a reference model R7 260 to continue to fill in those blanks. It is time to see if this card can do accomplish it like its big brother did.