The graphics battle kicks into high gear again with today’s launch of AMD’s ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card. Of course you can expect the usual performance improvements but the chip also sports new power saving features that should tame…
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In cooling silence is a completely relative term. What may seem whisper quiet to someone is annoyingly loud to someone else. There is of course a way to get complete silence but it used to mean setting your performance sights…
Read more Gigabyte Radeon HD 4850 SilentCell 1GB, quiet as a mouse
High end graphics cards usually come with a stock cooler design that is capable of handling the sort of heat the monsters put out, unfortunately they only do enough to maintain GPUs at a safe operating temperature.Hardware Canucks has a…
Read more Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 2GB Vapor-X, overkill cooling
Multi-monitor solutions over the years have ranged from astounding driver nightmares to expensive third party solutions and, in the end, never really came into form when supporting gaming across multiple displays.AMD seeks to change all of that with their upcoming…
Read more ATI Radeon Eyefinity, flight simmers get their prayers answered
We all enjoy cheap PC components as much as the next guy but there’s a reason they’re cheap, they stick to components and designs that are stable at or around their shipped speeds. That won’t cut it for the speed…
Read more ASUS GeForce GTX 285 Matrix, eeking out the best performance
The benefit, for consumers, of having a few technology companies battling it out means we reap the rewards in the form of faster components and the constant price undercutting between the manufacturers.It’s good times indeed.Tweak News has a look at…
The high end of the market is jam packed with insanely powerful hardware destined to make your gaming experience a richer, and quicker, one at a rather large expense. Thankfully today’s mid-range offers more bang for the buck than ever…
Read more Gigabyte Radeon HD 4770, Mid-Range Gaming on the cheap
In the forward march of progress there’s very little that can withstand the pressure of genuine innovation and improvement.That said there are still those that cling to their old hardware because, well, it still works pretty damn well so it…
Read more Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 AGP, yes you read correctly
Most graphics cards nowadays tend to deviate from the reference designs the chip manufacturers create, so while a company might call for a basline of a 600MHz core with 1000MHz memory clock rates the reality is that card manufactures are…
Microsoft’s upcoming WIndows 7 launch will bring with it another important piece of software for gamers, DirectX 11 (which will also support Vista). Ok DX11 is targeted at much more than just the gaming segment (GPGPU usage for one) but…
Read more AMD's DirectX 11 Preview, Evergreens Uncanny Valley Making Prowess
Microsoft’s Windows 7 is shaping up to be the operating system Windows users actually feel compelled to upgrade to. Gone are the early driver headaches and hassles that Vista users encountered but does it equal better performance in graphics intensive…
