Gigabyte 6980 Gaming Mouse Review | t-break: Tech @ Its Fastest

Gigabyte 6980 Gaming Mouse Review | t-break: Tech @ Its Fastest

For its price, Gigabyte’s latest rodent is exceptional value for money.

mong its lineup of motherboards, graphics card and PC chassis, Gigabyte’s attempt at gaming peripherals all but goes unnoticed. A quick look at the official website shows that the Taiwanese company has an extensive and rather impressive lineup of gaming mice, a frontier solidly dominated by Microsoft, Logitech and of course, Razer. But as of late, Gigabyte are pulling up its socks and are looking to make a firmer foothold in the lucrative gaming peripheral business. Gigabyte impressed us with its Aivia K8100, their first foray into gaming keyboards; and recently, we have received two of its newest gaming mice, the Gigabyte 6900 and Gigabyte 6980. While the 6900 garnered praise from our senior editor Taimoor Hafeez, let’s have a look how its big brother stacks up.

Gigabyte 6980 Gaming Mouse Review | t-break: Tech @ Its Fastest

Gigabyte 6980 Gaming Mouse Review | t-break: Tech @ Its Fastest

For its price, Gigabyte’s latest rodent is exceptional value for money.

mong its lineup of motherboards, graphics card and PC chassis, Gigabyte’s attempt at gaming peripherals all but goes unnoticed. A quick look at the official website shows that the Taiwanese company has an extensive and rather impressive lineup of gaming mice, a frontier solidly dominated by Microsoft, Logitech and of course, Razer. But as of late, Gigabyte are pulling up its socks and are looking to make a firmer foothold in the lucrative gaming peripheral business. Gigabyte impressed us with its Aivia K8100, their first foray into gaming keyboards; and recently, we have received two of its newest gaming mice, the Gigabyte 6900 and Gigabyte 6980. While the 6900 garnered praise from our senior editor Taimoor Hafeez, let’s have a look how its big brother stacks up.

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9 - Components - Reviews - ITP.net

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9 - Components - Reviews - ITP.net

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9

The X58A-UD9 is packed with Intel's X58 chipset, includes 6Gbps Serial ATA support and requires an XL-ATX compatible chassis

The GA-X58A-UD9 is Gigabyte's flagship X58 board and it sports a price tag of US $649. For that mighty price you get a LGA 1366 board that can run four GPUs simultaneously and packs 6Gb/sec Serial ATA support.

The board is able to run a four-way multi-GPU setup thanks to no less than seven PCI-E x16 expansion slots, four of which can run in x16 mode. These four slots should be used when building a multi-GPU system as they will provide maximum bandwidth for the bandwidth-hungry graphics cards. The remaining three PCI-E x16 slots run at x8 mode and so can be populated by other expansion cards.

Despite the board's feature-rich nature it still sports a clean, useable layout thanks to its XL-ATX form factor. You'll need a fairly large case to house the motherboard however, as it measures 345 x 262mm. The UD9's BIOS offers plenty of overclocking options, so you will be able to push your components to their very limits.

The GA-X58A-UD9 outperformed every other X58 board we've tested in our benchmarks by small margins. We were able to build a quad-GTX 470 setup but here performance didn't quite blow us away. This isn't the Gigabyte's fault however as multi-GPU technology, has always returned iffy graphics performance.

No Kuwait ban on DSLRs says paper - Gadgets - News & Features - ITP.net

No Kuwait ban on DSLRs says paper - Gadgets - News & Features - ITP.net

Kuwait Ministries have not banned DSLR cameras in the region, according to a retraction printed by the Kuwait Times.

The newspaper issued an apology after their story, released on November 20, was proven false. Further investigations by the Kuwait Times revealed that the Ministries of Information, Social Affairs and Finance never prohibited the use of DSLR cameras by the general public.

The newspapers story claimed that amateur photographers were finding it hard to take photographs in public and some were switching to doing abstract and still life photography rather than taking photographs of people in public.

Intel Sandy Bridge CPU prices leaked | t-break: Tech @ Its Fastest

Intel Sandy Bridge CPU prices leaked | t-break: Tech @ Its Fastest

We all know that the revamped Intel Core i3/i5/i7 processors, aka the Sandy Bridge processors will be coming out soon. And if you’re in the market to upgrade your existing rig or build something completely new, then waiting for the Sandy Bridge processors may seem like an enticing idea. And if the leaked price list below is to be believed, then the wait is not for long, and truly worthwhile.

Introduction - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 480 Super Overclock Review | [H]ard|OCP

Introduction - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 480 Super Overclock Review | [H]ard|OCP

Gigabyte has the fastest factory overclocked GeForce GTX 480 card out there in their GeForce GTX 480 SOC. It features advanced circuitry, a custom cooling device, and the highest out-of-the-box GPU overclock we have ever seen. But does that translate to improved performance in games? Can it deliver a better gaming experience than its competitor?

Google Targeted by EU Antitrust Probe - PCWorld

Google Targeted by EU Antitrust Probe - PCWorld

The European Commission is investigating allegations that Google has abused its dominant position in online search to promote its other services, such as price comparators, the Commission announced Tuesday.

Image Credit: GoogleThe investigation will also look into alleged abuse of exclusivity clauses that discourage sites carrying advertisements served by Google from also carrying advertisements served by its rivals.

PC manufacturers and software developers will also be questioned to see whether they were pressured by Google to make its search service the default in their products, the Commission said.

Complaints from other search service providers sparked the investigation, it said.