It’s rare to see a video card like the PowerColor Radeon HD 6770 PCS+ Vortex II especially when the price range it’s competing in is filled with plenty of inexpensive models that rely on a reference cooling system. Impressively the company has gone with a massive heatpipe and fan combination which is virtually unheard of in […]
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The ASUS GeForce GTX 560Ti video card is, by all accounts, a mid range graphics card which sports the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560Ti GPU but its cooling solution is a little over the top which allows for quite a bit of overclocking that no longer allows it to slot into that middle of the road but […]
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ASUS is well known for performance products which puts the Radeon HD 6770 DirectCU Silent video card in a bit of a weird spot. It offers the great gaming performance a 6770 card should offer but they’ve piled on a silent heatsink that should keep temperatures under control and minimize the amount of noise your system […]
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Lucidlogix is a technology company that sits in a very strange place. They’re knee deep in video technology but they don’t produce GPUs themselves, instead they create technology like HyperFormance which they hope will improve how gaming feels to the gamer. Their software sits between gaming software and DirectX and intercepts calls that are being […]
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The ASUS ROG MARS II video card is one of those niche products that will only find their way into the machines of those that are extremely dedicated to performance no matter the cost. It sports a pair of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 graphics chips working their SLI magic on a single card so you’ll […]
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PNY’s new XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580 with CPU Cooling solves a few of the problems a high end gaming computer will run into… namely keeping two of your high priced components running cool. Its cooling system is a self contained loop that effectively cools the company’s overclocked GTX 580, to an 857 MHz core clock […]
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Our disdain for reference cooling designs goes far back when you consider that they’re designed to do just an adequate job which just isn’t enough if you plan on pushing things to the limit or you want something that doesn’t sound like a jet engine when things get a little complex. HIS has put together […]
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Good enough processor performance means that you can consider spending the extra cash you had marked on a high-end CPU for other, more pressing, matters. The AMD Radeon HD6850 and HD6950 offer great gaming performance at good prices which makes them a great target for that multi-GPU capable gaming machine you’ve been planning on building. […]
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Video cards are a notoriously difficult PC upgrade to choose because AMD and NVIDIA have seen it fit to provide so many great products within pricing distance of each other meaning a couple of extra bucks spent could equal a hefty performance bump. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 shouldn’t be confused with its Ti labeled […]
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We’re big fans of enhanced cooling solutions being slapped onto PC peripherals especially in the mid-range video card market since it allows for the excessive tinkering that enthusiasts are known for. The HIS Radeon HD 6790 IceQ X Turbo video card sports a beefier cooler than the reference design which, obviously, leads to better cooling performance […]
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Yes improved coolers let you do wonderful things with your hardware, like attempt riskier overclocks without the fear of overheating, but it goes further than that too. The MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti HAWK touts a much improved heatsink solution that puts out less noise and, unsurprisingly, cools better than the reference cooler design to go […]
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