Microsoft’s DirectX 10 graphics API promised us all a much richer visual experience when titles and graphics cards made full use of the technology, given how long new features take to work into game development things didn’t turn out so…
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ATI’s Radeon HD 4770 fits into that nice category where it’s faster than the low end and almost as fast as the more expensive mid-range. Given the small performance trade offs and a $99 MSRP they’re a bargain for the…
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Getting the most out of PC hardware is the computer enthusiast’s pastime. Overclocking gear to make it operate far beyond its stock settings gets quite a bit of glee out of the consummate tweaker, doing the same to a value…
If you’re into that whole value for dollar segment of the enthusiast market, which is a whole heck of a lot of us, grabbing the top end graphics card isn’t the way to go since you’d rather have a fairly…
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Ok, first things first, yes the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 is simply a rebranded 9800GTX+, so you’re buying into a chip that technically a generation behind the true current gen, that doesn’t mean it can’t perform well.Motherboards.org has a review…
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ATI’s Radeon HD X2 series has had some measure of success given the feature rich GPUs they’re working with and much improved CrossFire support in their drivers. Most graphics card makers that offer X2s choose to go for the most…
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Integrated Graphics Processors are a great stop-gap measure, perhaps even a competent multimedia handling GPU, but it is by no means a gaming platform. Intel wants to change that and is launching a set of tools and asking developers to…
Read more Intel Pushes Its IGPs For Gaming, Pigs Learn To Aviate
So you’ve got yourself your brand new $250 somewhat monster of a graphics card and playing your games at insane resolutions isn’t enough, you’d bettter get on to overclocking that puppy. Guru3D has taken the recently released Radeon HD 4890…
It’s official, AMD/ATI’s Radeon HD 4890 is, for the most part, a faster version of the company’s 4870 graphics card, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. Instead of simply taking choice 4870 GPUs and running them at higher clock…
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There was a time when you could count the number of GPU releases from companies on one hand, but nowadays you need a roadmap to make sense of it all. If you don’t feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of…
Read more Nvidia GeForce GTX 275, Another Mid-Range Gaming Option
AMD/ATI’s CrossFire technology allows you to pair up two identical graphics cards for, theoretically, a sizable performance boost. It all works pretty well for the gamers out there that strive for the highest frame rates at insane resolutions using today’s…
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