ATI seems determined to have a top-to-bottom DX11 lineup ready before nVidia releases a single DirectX 11 card, and here’s yet another card in that ~$100 price bracket that fills in a performance/price gap in the current product mix fairly nicely. This isn’t REALLY a gaming card, but it does have a little bit of oomph, especially compared to any low end or onboard solution, and it does have the full 5000 series feature set including 7.1 audio via HDMI, eyefinity, and DirectX 11 of course!

The NZXT Hades is actually a fairly interesting product. I guess that’s why they dropped one on my doorstep for me to have a look at. I apologize for this being such a long unboxing, but it’s hard to really demonstrate a case well without taking a while. Also I’m not too good at case unboxings since I haven’t done many, so I got a little lost in the middle of it and started to ramble. Oh well.

Gigabyte’s come out in full force with H55 boards, and this is one of their highest end ones. It features (you guessed it) USB 3.0, which means that you can get 10x the data rate of a conventional USB 2.0 connection, which means much faster connections to your data and devices!

The 7G has been a staple for professional gamers for a long time, but that doesn’t prevent me from taking a “first look” at it. It’s not a real first look, mind you, because I’ve used this keyboard extensively in the past (and I love it), but it’s a first look for you all, so I’ll go ahead and call it that.