The bulk of the graphics cards that are released with a GPU launch tend to stick near the factory settings because most manufacturers are in a rush to get their products to market quicker, the more interesting stuff comes along later. The XFX Radeon HD 5870 XXX Edition serves up a bit of a clock […]
Graphics Cards
Graphics cards have a habit of improving quite rapidly so what was high end last year is suddenly mid-range this year and on down that line. You won’t see us complaining about that trend much. AMD’s Radeon HD 5670 sports the same great DX11 supporting feature set found on its bigger brothers but snips off […]
Read more AMD Radeon HD 5670 redefines the low-end
Gaming is as stressful and activity your PC is likely to go through. Those lit, shaded, anti-aliased, and anisotropic filtered pixels require more than a bit of processing power to pump out and have always presented a big problem to graphics card manufacturers…well at least they used to. ATI’s Radeon HD 5970 is so powerful […]
Read more ATI Radeon HD 5970 makes you want even more monitors
Graphics cards tend to be very temperature sensitive which puts a bit of a crimp in the overclocking and tweaking plans of many of use out there, reference coolers just can’t seem to keep up. TestSeek Labs has a look at the Sapphire Vapor-X Radeon HD 5750 which does away with the reference design in […]
Read more Sapphire Vapor-X Radeon HD 5750 piles on the cooling performance
Graphics card launches are generally a good thin, bringing about the latest and greatest in graphical technical achievements, unfortunately they also bring along the dreadful “reference heatsink” which nearly every card manufacturer adopts to save time and get their product out the door quickly. Gigabyte’s Radeon HD 5750 does away with the reference cooler and […]
Read more Gigabyte Radeon HD 5750 blazes its own cooler trail
Intel’s stab at a consumer level graphics chip that makes use of many many X86 cores and SIMD instruction sets to make for a powerful GPU is, apparently, a thing of the past. VentureBeat writes that Larrabee’s development was behind where Intel had hoped so they’re cutting their plans to release it as a consumer […]
Read more Intel Drops Larrabee Consumer Plans
When a new graphics chip lineup is launched there’s usually quite a few chips that aren’t quite up to the task for running at the insanely high speeds of the top end so they do a bit of tinkering and make them suitable for the lower end of the market. It might seem a little […]
Read more Sapphire Radeon HD 5750 for your tamer gamer needs
The last few years have seen the high end of the graphics card market dedicated to multi-GPU solutions. While a single high-end GPU on a graphics card is quite speedy two chips on a single graphics card make things even more interesting, especially when they also offer up multiple GPU connections. The AMD Radeon HD […]
Read more AMD Radeon HD 5970 crams amazing speed on a single board
Granted you don’t need to sort of power today’s high-end and mid-range graphics cards offer but you don’t exactly want bottom rung performance for your PC either. You enjoy a bit of gaming on the side which integrated graphics chips can’t exactly handle and extremely low-end add-on cards aren’t designed to even run on. The […]
Read more Zotac GeForce GT 240 AMP! Edition sports peppy low-end performance
Constantly aiming for the high-end has some unintended effects on your PC. That top of the line card is going to want a new power supply to keep it happy and an appropriate processor and memory to keep it busy with new information to render. Perhaps shooting a little lower will save you some cash […]
Read more Asus Radeon HD 5850 produces the framerates that you desire
Normally when you go for the low-end of the market you know what you’re in for. You’re looking for some cost savings or power savings by going with chips that aren’t as powerful as the more expensive options but still offer plenty of power for the mundane usage scenarios. There’s still room for tweaking though. […]
Read more EVGA GeForce GT 220 SSC DDR3 the low-end tweaker’s approach
