Author: Thomas

Rockstargames.com’s NewsWire blog today disappointed PC gamers world wide when they announced Grand Theft Auto V for PC has been delayed from January 27th to March 24th. Along with the bad news they also published the official system requirements and posted a series of screenshots from the PC edition of the game. (more…)

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By the end of this month our retail store currently located at 16/14-26 Audsley Street in Clayton South will be moved to our newest location, 1/2 Atherton Road in Oakleigh.

California based Turtle Rock Studios, the makers of Left For Dead and Counter Strike has published the minimum and recommended hardware requirements for their upcoming 4 v 1 monster hunting first person shooter, Evolve.

Just yesterday, a news post on evolvegame.com spilled the beans, publishing the requirements reportedly ‘ripped straight from the side of the box’. (more…)

Update : MSI Gaming edition cards are the first to get an street date of 22/01. They have also listed a “suggested retail price” of $399 AUD but we pretty safely expect street prices well below this on release date. MSI says the TI edition of the GTX 960 is due ‘early February’ with no SRP details just yet. Will will update this post with any news we hear from other vendors in the meantime.

Original Post : The the internet all abuzz with plenty of rumors and speculation over the last month or so regarding the upcoming release of the GTX 960 and TI series of cards from NVIDIA, it seems we have pretty much reached a consensus and the current rumors seem so well backed up with leaks and insider comments that they are almost as good as facts.

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Aggressively styled heatsinks on memory kits has long been common place but one of the very first vendors to pursue this practice, long long ago, was G.Skill. Long time PC gamers who are familiar with their hardware will know G.Skill has been around and leading the charge in overclockable gaming memory since soon after it’s inception in 1989.

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Every week we try to bring you something new and exciting from the world of PC IT and this week alone there is a massive 30 new products we’ve added to your list.

The new MSI gaming laptops are here, including the first to have NVIDIA’s latest GTX 9 series GPU. The 17 inch i7 powered Windows 8.1 running beast comes with a 2 year warranty, 8GB of DDR3 and 3GB of discreet video memory. Weighing in at just under 4kg, this is no portable ultrabook but it will definitely keep pace with high end desktops when it comes to gaming. Check it out (here). (more…)

The X99 series with all it’s Haswell-E and DDR4 glory has arrived at Evatech. While the components have been available separately for a while, supply is finally steady enough that we have upgraded our previously X79 based Ragnarok custom gaming PCs to the brand new X99 platform.

Your choice of six beastly motherboards to combine with any one of the three Intel Haswell-E series CPU’s and 8 different DDR4 kit options, assembled to order in your choice of case with your choice of accessories, coolers and other components. (more…)

In an interview with Alt-Tab, Rockstar games has told us that the team that handled the Max Payne 3 port to PC is the same team tasked with bringing GTA V to PC in January. Max Payne 3’s PC edition was arguably the best version of the game and great PC port with no performance issues or major bugs and top notch optimized menu’s, controls and textures to make full use of the strengths of the PC platform. (more…)

Today the Fractal Design CORE series, Define R4 and Node 304 have joined the Evatech case catalog along with the Corsair 240 AIR and 380T. Find these new case choices across our custom gaming PC range today (click here).

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Stock of all the R9 280x and R9 290 and quickly disappearing at all the major Australian distributors and re-sellers. Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, Sapphire and XFX distributors are all out of stock of these particular SKUs, with some completely removing the SKU from their catalogs.

With a rumor (now confirmed) that 8GB versions of the R9 290X was due in the coming weeks, we are guessing the R9 280x and 290 will be getting some sort of refresh also. With no known replacement on the horizon for these disappearing cards it’s unlikely they have been completely discontinued. Industry & enthusiast forums speculate the refresh will replace the current Tahiti GPUs with TONGA based GPUs. (more…)