Gigabyte may be a name known to some due to their motherboards, but it seems the company has recently decided to venture into the over saturated peripheral market with the release of the Gigabyte Aivia K8100 keyboard. This keyboard – similar to their recent motherboards – is aimed at the enthusiast computer crowd. With features such as 20-key simultaneous anti-ghosting as well as up to 100 programmable, on-board macros, this keyboard is clearly for the hardest of hardcore gamers. Within this review, Benchmark Reviews tests the Gigabyte Aivia K8100 gaming keyboard.

Nowadays most computers come with case windows, with these case windows most people like to put in LED fans or cold cathode lights. But in the recently we have seen more and more companys start to adapt and move over to LED lighting. NZXT is ahead of the curve, offering a sleeve d LED light kit along with a lot of their other modding parts they have b een making. We are going to install and test out these sleeved LED kits a nd see if it is perfect for your next build.

*Rage3D reviews the EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Superclocked edition, and tries out Nvidia Surround for the first time. Join us for GTX 580 SLI head to head against Quad Crossfire, in the form of overclocked HD 5970s and Crossfire HD 5870 2GB cards, all in glorious HD and 6 megapixel triple display resolution! *

Gigabyte is a board partner thats known for pushing the boundaries on Nvidias reference graphics cards, whether its a custom heatsink, improved quality components, or a factory overclock. And true to form, the GTX 480 SOC includes all of these with an excellent heatsink, improved power design components, and a strong factory overclock.

*Quote:* *ASUS hasnt been in the PC audio market for all that long but in a short amount of time, they have gained the respect of many hard to please audio aficionados. Their latest creation is the Xense 7.1 an all-in-one solution that incorporates a sound card and a set of specially modified Sennheiser headphones. The goal of the Xense is to provide the perfect soundscape for gamers who want to dabble in all forms of auditory fields but will this make it a jack of all trades but master of none?* *Image URL:* http://images.hardwarecanucks.com/image/akg/audio/xense/Asus_Xonar_Xense_board2_sm.jpg We would appreciate it if you would post this in your News section.

/*Snippet:*/ /The Thermaltake Tt eSPORTS Dasher offers increased responsiveness over regular mouse pads. With the Thermaltake Dasher Mousepads enlarged surface area, you have the freedom to move your mouse across the screen faster than the competition, even in Eyefinity or Surround monitor setups. The Thermaltake Tt eSPORTS Dasher Mouse Pad comes with a 1-year warranty and is designed to withstand the abuse of professional LAN PC gaming./

Quote: The 10MHz improvement in base clock speed does offer up a small boost in games. However, ASUS was not going to let that be the only point of difference with this card and included its Smart Doctor utility to get the most from the GTX 580. By utilizing this utility and tweaking the voltage, I was able to increase the clock speed from the base 782MHz on the GF 110 core by 23%, up to 962MHz. On the memory, the scaling was not as dramatic, but still went up by 14% to 1140MHz. This allowed the already fastest single GPU in the market to scale well beyond what the reference card was able to deliver.

The Thermaltake Challenger Pro is an impressive gaming keyboard with lots of features for any type of gamer.

Sapphire as premium partner of AMD usually creates own designs based on AMDs GPUs shortly after their launch. The Toxic series addresses Gamers and Enthusiasts with overclocking and improved cooling solutions.