Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source.

• AMD Begins Slashing the Prices of its Radeon R9 290, R9 290X GPUs
• QPAD Launches MK-70 Mechanical Keyboard
• Aerocool Debuts the Strike-X Cube Micro ATX PC Case
• Cooler Master Unveils the CM Storm Octane Keyboard and Mouse Combo
• Gigabyte Reveals New Z97-HD3P Motherboard
• Palit Reveals Geforce GTX 980 (Super) JetStream
• MSI Silently Introduces GTX 970 Gaming 4G Lite Edition
• BenQ Outs the XL2430T Gaming PC Monitor
• Mushkin Introduces the Chronos G2 Solid State Drives
• SMART Modular Expands to DDR4 With Its Ultra High Reliability Enterprise Memory
• Aqua Computer Intros Kryographics GTX 980 Full Cover Water Block
• Aqua Computer Also Announces Airplex Radical 2 Series Radiators