Graphics Cards

by Rafael Hernandez on March 28, 2009 · 0 comments

When it comes to the high-end graphics segment and today’s latest games you’re left to going for Microsoft’s Vista operating system due to its DirectX 10 support and fine tuned 64-bit support. Windows 7 is looking to one up Vista’s…

Read more High-end Gaming, Windows 7 Versus Vista

by Rafael Hernandez on March 27, 2009 · 0 comments

The usual laptop purchasing process is straightforward for the majority of people, see something you like you buy it. The mobile gaming crowd on the other hand holds on to their hard-earned cash and pours over spec sheets with a…

Read more ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 Series, Gaming On The Go Gets Faster

by Rafael Hernandez on March 26, 2009 · 0 comments

General purpose GPU (GPGPU) computing has shown promise over the past year popping up in a number of applications, most notably popping up in Adobe’s Creative Suite 4, and now being used by MotionDSP’s vRevealin order to clean up your…

Read more MotionDSP's vReveal, Using Your Nvidia GPU For Things Other Than Games

by Rafael Hernandez on March 25, 2009 · 0 comments

Nvidia’s GeForce GTS 250 has caught a bit of flak as it is a simple rebadged graphics chip from a generation (if you want to get technical, two generations) ago but that doesn’t mean board makers can’t go all out…

Read more TwinTech Geforce GTS 250 XT OC Edition, In A Word: Overkill

by Rafael Hernandez on March 25, 2009 · 0 comments

There is no doubt that today’s latest and greatest graphics cards can churn out some impressive visuals at high resolutions and equally insane framerates. Despite how powerful the GPUs are nowadays there could still be extra performance to eek of…

Read more AMD Speeding Up Graphics, One Dev Tool At A Time

by Rafael Hernandez on March 24, 2009 · 0 comments

HIS has a reputation for taking the latest and greatest graphics cards and slapping their own highly efficient cooler on it with some nice results. techPowerUp has a look at the company’s Radeon HD 4870 IceQ4+ Turbo card which takes…

Read more HIS Radeon HD 4870 IceQ4+ Turbo Reviewed, Keeping The Beast Cool

by Rafael Hernandez on March 24, 2009 · 0 comments

Microsoft’s Windows 7 has gained a sizeable fan base just from the beta previews the company has released. The one question most gamers will be asking is how it’ll affect their system hardware’s performance so PC Perspective has taken the…

Read more Windows 7 Gaming Graphics Performance Tested

by Rafael Hernandez on March 23, 2009 · 0 comments

The latest graphics cards offer insane amounts of performance potential but that all depends on the system you’re backing it up with, pairing it with even last generation’s fastest quad core might not be enough. TweakTown has a look at…

Read more Unleashing NVIDIA's GTX 295, A Test In CPU Scaling

by Rafael Hernandez on March 22, 2009 · 0 comments

All of the marketing and SKU renaming shenanigans aside Nvidia’s GeForce GTS 250 is able to hold its own in most modern gaming titles. HardwareZone has a look at Gigabyte’s version of the card and tries to see if anything…

Read more Gigabyte GeForce GTS 250 Reviewed, Yes The Newer Is Just As Good As The Original

by Rafael Hernandez on March 19, 2009 · 0 comments

Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 is one of the tools of choice artists rely on getting what’s in their head into some form of digital medium, their wacky ideas also happen to take a whole heck of a lot of processing…

Read more NVIDIA Quadro CX, Accelerating Your Adobe CS4 Experience

by Rafael Hernandez on March 19, 2009 · 0 comments

When in doubt throw more ****** at it. It works in many situations; syrup to pancakes, money to troubled banks, the list goes on. Sapphire has taken the same approach and loaded their Vapor-X 4870 with 2GB of GDDR5 memory…

Read more Sapphire Vapor-X 4870, 2GB Of GDDR5 Joy