Well known for his extreme overclocking records with EVGA products, Kingpin has now taken Nvidia’s Kepler GK104 based EVGA GTX 680 upto a staggering 1958 MHz on the core clock. That is just 42 MHz short of the massive 2GHz barrier!

Online Retailer DirectCanada has listed several Gigabyte Z77 Motherboards, One of these is the High-End GA-Z77X-UD5H which has been listed for $187.96. Other models are detailed below:

• Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H -  $187.96
• Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H  - $165.84
• Gigabyte Z77-D3H -       $131.46
• Gigabyte Z77M-D3H –   $109.73

MSI, known recently for having the world’s fastest yet stable motherboards and graphics cards have today announced the availability of Intel 7 series motherboards on the LGA 1155 socket featuring MSI’s Military Class III build components.

We reported earlier that Inno3D was working on a Water-Cooled version of the GeForce GTX 680 GPU, The GPU has now been pictured and would be known as the iChill GeForce GTX 680 featuring the ARCTIC Accelero Hybrid Cooler. Inno3D’s iChill series GPU’s have been famous in the past for using Non-Reference Cooling designs from ARCTIC cooling.

NVIDIA after the successful launch of its GeForce GTX 680 is further preparing two more GK104 Chip based GPU’s which would be known as the GeForce GTX 670Ti and GeForce GTX 670. In addition to these, NVIDIA would also expand its Kepler lineup in Q2 2012 by introducing the GK106 Mid-Range GPU “GeForce GTX 660” and a Dual GK104 GPU codenamed  GTX 690.

Kingston has announced the immediate availability of a card reader better known as the G3 MobileLite that is not USB 2.0, but USB 3.0 that is compatible with a large number of memory cards available on the market.

A well known graphics card manufacturer known by the name of ‘GALAXY’ has had it’s team in touch with enthusiast water cooling overclocker expert ‘Water God’ for testing it’s upcoming water cooled variant of Nvidia’s recently launched Kepler based GTX 680 GPU and it’s image has surfaced on a popular micro blogging site in China.

Chinese Graphic cards manufacturer Colorful Technology, today announced the availability of the iGame GTX680-2G Kudan, the company’s most fastest Non-Reference GTX 680 design. Last year, Colorful  introduced the GTX 560Ti iGame Kudan which was the first to feature the new non-reference design, the same design now follows the GK104 chip.

Intel has moved up the launch date of their upcoming Ivy Bridge processors to April 23rd. Initially, the Ivy Bridge processors were delayed till April 29th for unknown reasons, Now Intel is aiming to launch seven new Core i 3***Series processors on April 23rd.

Information from OBR’s blog suggests that NVIDIA is aiming to launch its Next Generation Flagship GPU based on the GK110 chip in late Q3 2012. Along with the release date, A few key specifications such as memory configuration, die size and performance gain over the GK104 chip have also been detailed.