Phantek has introduced a black variant of its flagship CPU cooler, the TC14PE. Originally released in chrome/silver, blue, red, and orange, the black TC14PE aims to appeal to many users out there who prefer the dark color as an addition to their case mods.

European PC cooling manufacturer Phantek has announced the availability of its PH-TC14CS C-Type CPU Cooler which features a of a top-down airflow design that uses two large 140/120mm fans placed on the top and bottom of the cooler’s large aluminum fin array.

Scythe Japan has released the Rev. B of its top-flow CPU cooling solution, the Grand Kama Cross CPU cooler. The new revision brings support for the latest Intel LGA2011 socket of extreme CPUs while maintaining the same price point as the previous model.

In an inevitable turn of events, Intel has now leaked its own information about its upcoming Atom core, Valleyview that will power the Bay Trail SoC. The leaked was caused by Intel submitting its driver information for the upcoming Linux 3.4 kernel.

A benchmark comparing AMD’s upcoming A10-5800K Trinity APU with the current A8-3850 Llano APU has surfaced in the web. The results are quite impressive as the upcoming Trinity chip managed to show a 50% performance improvement in graphics compared to the current Llano chip.

AMD is now preparing to release two new FX-series Bulldozer CPUs. The two new models that will join the lineup are the FX-4130, a quad core part and the FX-6130, a six core part.

In earlier reports, it was revealed that AMD is planning to release an FX-8150 that comes bundled with the company’s own liquid cooling solution. The information about such package was confirmed early in January after pre-order listings appeared online.

Intel’s Haswell CPUs, the successor to its Ivy Bridge CPUs will indeed come with much faster graphics than its predecessors. If you remember the previous report that there will be varying graphics for Haswell, that fact remains true and the performance increase is expected to start from 20% up to double that of the current Ivy Bridge graphics.

Intel’s enthusiast grade Ivy Bridge-E CPUs will most likely not appear this year according to a recent slide that was published by ComputerBase. The slide shows what is allegedly Intel’s most recent CPU road map and details the chip giant’s plan for this year until 2013 which clearly has no sign of the Ivy Bridge-E chips.

Cooler Master has finally decided to revive its water cooling business, well at least in Europe for the time-being as the company has now unveiled its soon to retail Eisberg series of water cooling solution for CPUs.

AMD is now preparing to launch to the retail channel the low cost dual core A4-3420 APU that has been originally available to OEM manufacturers only since January this year.

AMD is looking to start the production of its FX-8350 CPUs in Q3 of this year. The FX-8350 is a 32nm Piledriver architecture based AMD CPU that is bound to replace the current FX-8150 Zambezi Bulldozer FX CPU.

Another leaked document from Intel now reveals a more or less sure launch date for the Ivy Bridge processors. The slide was published by Turkish website DonanimHaber and contains not only the launch date of the Core i7 and Core i5 Ivy Bridge CPUs but also the ones for the rest of the whole Ivy Bridge lineup.

A slide presentation that is claiming to be of AMD’s was published by OBR-Hardware. The slide focuses on one product and that is a GPU codenamed ‘Tenerife’ which features an enhanced GCN (Graphics Core Next) GPU architecture and will most probably succeed the current ‘Tahiti’ GPU powering the Radeon 7900-series graphics cards from AMD.

Japanese website Hermitage Akihabara has published a slide detailing AMD’s Radeon HD 7800 graphics cards based on the Pitcairn GPU. The slide contains detailed information about the Radeon HD 7870 and HD 7850 that are both expected to launch this month of March.

Intel has slipped out a flipbook containing all information about its third generation Core processors dubbed as Ivy Bridge. The flipbook PDF file contains complete model lineup and naming as well as fully detailed specifications that include base clock, turbo clock, cache size and the model of each CPU’s integrated graphics.

Although Intel’s Ivy Bridge CPUs are now facing delays due to still unknown reasons, it’s good to know that they are at least capable of good feats. In addition to being low power consuming chips and having better performance in terms of CPU and graphics, it seems Ivy Bridge is also a very good overclocker as the flagship chip, the Core i7-3770K has now been reported to have been overclocked just beyond 7GHz.

So many stories are now surrounding Intel’s Ivy Bridge CPUs. There was the initial report about some mobile chip models being delayed and now more delays seem to be on the way that concerns not only some models but the whole Ivy Bridge platform as well. So if you’re one of those itching to get their hands on the new CPUs, you may want to read on and analyze the information yourself.

AMD has released two new FX Bulldozer CPUs, the FX-4170 and FX-6200 and at the same time, cuts the prices of its Phenom and other FX CPUs.

It’s less than two months to go until the launch of Intel’s Ivy Bridge CPUs and more information is starting to surface the latest one being the low power Core i7-3770S CPU being up to 27% faster than its Sandy Bridge counterpart, the Core i7-2600S.

AMD has revealed at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) that their upcoming Piledriver based CPUs will utilize resonant clock mesh technology developed by Cyclos Semiconductor. This technology can reduce power consumption by 10% and increase clock speed by 10% without requiring a raise in TDP.

Spire brings us its latest tower-type CPU cooler, the TME III which is the latest member of the company’s TherMax Eclipse CPU cooler series. The TME III features increased number of heat pipes and higher density of dimpled and aluminum fins as well as two high air-flow 120mm BlackStar 7 blades, high quality precision Nano bearing DC fans.

Intel is now looking to lower the prices of Ivy Bridge CPUs to compensate for the delay of its mass shipments. This is to help the transition from Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge without causing a price shock to its partners who are still trying to exhaust their remaining Sandy Bridge CPUs.

Haswell CPUs, the successor the Ivy Bridge CPUs coming this April, will pack graphics that everyone is expecting to be significantly faster than its predecessors. The question now is just how really fast they would be compared to Ivy Bridge’s graphics.

Noctua has announced the NH-L12, a low-profile CPU cooler that is ideal for small form factor PCs such as HTPCs. The NH-L12 features a top down design that makes use of two fans – the 120mm NF-F12 and the 92mm NF-B9 that are arranged in a dual fan setup.

Last week’s report about Intel delaying mass shipments of its Ivy Bridge CPUs might have been very disappointing for many especially for those who were planning on building a new rig when the chips come out. The delay will indeed happen but luckily, only dual core models will be affected.

AMD has now been reported to be preparing three new FX CPUs for launch later this quarter. The new CPUs to be expected are the FX-8140, FX-6120 and the FX-4150. All these three CPUs are still based on Bulldozer and not the enhanced Piledriver architecture and all feature 95W TDP.

Intel has now notified its partners about its plan to delay the mass shipments of its Ivy Bridge CPUs. The move is not because of manufacturing problems or low yields of the new CPUs but rather, to help the company’s partners exhaust their remaining Sandy Bridge CPU inventories which until now are seeing slow movement because of the overall low demand due to the weak global economy.

Intel’s Haswell CPUs are not due until the midpoint of 2013 but as early as now details about it are starting to surface indicating the Santa Clara based chip giant is already deep into developing them. The latest bit of information we have now is about the 8-series chipset codenamed “Lynx Point” which will pair with the CPUs for the new platform.

Intel’s Ivy Bridge CPUs are nearing the predicted April launch that is why more information about the chips is also starting to surface. On our previous reports we already detailed the Core i7 and Core i5 chips which apparently will bear similar prices with their Sandy Bridge counterpart in time of those chips’ launch.