Author: Thomas

  • Gigabyte vs MSI, the Battle of the Factory Overclocked GTX 970 and GTX 980

    Gigabyte vs MSI, the Battle of the Factory Overclocked GTX 970 and GTX 980

    A couple of weeks ago the first Gigabyte GTX 980 and GTX 970 cards hit the Australian market and were promptly added to our custom PC builder options the moment stock arrived. This week we welcome 4 more options for high end custom gaming PCs in the form of 1 more GTX 970 and 3 more GTX 980 cards.

    MSI have introduced their GTX 980 and GTX 970 GAMING series each their well recognized TwinFrozr cooler, 4GB of memory and a factory overclock. With their non-reference coolers and factory overclock out of the box, these cards go head to head with Gigabyte’s G1 series. (more…)

  • October PC Game Releases – Evatech

    October PC Game Releases – Evatech

    October has a long tradition of kicking off the holiday game release season and this year it’s no different. If your still holding out on buying a new gaming PC, maybe one the titles coming over the next few weeks will be enough to push you over the edge.

    With just so many to choose from, we have cherry picked some of the games we are most looking for to for the month. For a full list of upcoming titles checkout Steam’s Coming Soon page or your favorite PC gaming news website.

     

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  • Building a Gaming PC for Middle Earth: Shadows of Mordor

    Building a Gaming PC for Middle Earth: Shadows of Mordor

    Monolith’s Middle Earth: Shadows of Mordor has been getting a lot hype ahead of it’s release tomorrow and if the big game review sites are to believed, rightly so.

    • 8/10 – Gamespot.com
    • 9.3/10 IGN.com
    • 5/5 GiantBomb.com
    • 4.5/5 GamesRadar.com

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  • Gigabyte GTX 980 and GTX 970 G1 Benchmarked – Evatech

    Gigabyte GTX 980 and GTX 970 G1 Benchmarked – Evatech

    With the drivers finally being released for Nvidia’s new GTX 9xx series, our technicians have finally had a chance to put our newest arrivals through their paces with a benchmark and temperature test. The GTX 980 and 970 are the newest additions to the Nvidia line up running on the more power efficient, DirectX 12 ready Maxwell architecture, announced today during Nvidia’s Game24 live stream.

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  • Gigabyte GTX 980 4GB Early Hands On [Photos] N980D5-4GD

    Gigabyte GTX 980 4GB Early Hands On [Photos] N980D5-4GD

    Our first shipment of the eagerly awaited Gigabyte GTX 980’s arrived early ahead of Fridays launch and and much to our dismay, there was no driver CD in the box. In its place was a sticker asking us to visit Nvidia’s website to download the drivers, where the drivers have yet to be released.

    So instead of bringing you benchmarks, we will have to settle for some photos instead.
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