We’ve seen quite a few custom PCs here at GS. It’s somewhat of a passion of ours; we love searching the world wide web for the coolest, most “out there” custom rigs. For today at least, the award of “coolest custom rig” goes to PC modder “Asphiax” and his AT-AT Walker mod. The guts of this work of art include an Intel Core i7-2600K CPU, Sapphire 6870 GPU and 8 GB of RAM. Digging deeper, the Intel brain is kept cool thanks to...

We usually hear from the tech community that the mobile market moves blindingly fast. And in fact, if you look back at what a high-end smartphone could do in 2006 as well as the types of apps it had and then look at what we’ve got now just 6 years later, the differences and noticeable advancements are insane. But even the best mobile hardware still can’t compete with more “traditional” gaming hardware like consoles and PCs. By 2014, however, Nvidia...

For PC gamers who swap out parts on a not-so-normal 6-18 month cycle, it’s always a bummer to know the product you’re selling (or buying) will lose (or have lost) it’s warranty. Even worse, if you’re selling across country borders, warranties often go through some weird legal obstacle course where the original promise is contorted — if again, it makes it to the next user at all. Today, however, EVGA, popular PC hardware manufacturer announced...

Nvidia’s GTX 680 is a beast of a card by itself, handedly conquering pretty much any game thrown at it with max settings and playable frame rates. But what happens when you up the resolution to a 3-monitor split of 5760 x 1080 and toss in three more 680s? Insanity. Dutch site Hardware.info did just that, throwing $2,000 worth of video cards onto a single motherboard’s back, and flogging the hell out of all of it. Some things like the 89 fps recorded in Alien vs....

While Nvidia is busy unveiling their next-gen 6xx desktop/mobile series AMD is inadvertently working hard to steal back the limelight. Chinese site inpai.com has managed to gather and post what it says are the specs of AMD’s upcoming dual-gpu 7990 graphics card. It is, of course, going to be extremely powerful with a combined 8.6 billion transistors and 4,096 stream processors between the two dies, as well as dual-384-bit memory channels, 6 GB of memory, 64 ROPs, and...