Anything with passive cooling generally makes me shudder, but when it comes to my HTPC setup, small and quiet hardware is of the utmost importance. The Sapphire HD 6450 FleX Edition is already the least expensive Eyefinity solution on the market, but how flexible is this card really?
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1/31
2012
2012
Oh, what a glorious day it is here in Tahiti…no, you didn’t just jump in to my vacation blog. We are here today to review the PowerColor HD 7950 PCS+. If this card is anything like its big brother, the HD 7970, this card should be another absolute monster. Let’s see how it compares against that and other high end GPUs.
Read More1/13
2012
2012
There is a fairly significant gap in the market between the GTX 560 Ti and GTX 570. Answering the call is a new GTX 560 Ti 448 core based on the GTX570/580 core (GF110). Zotac was kind enough to send us a sample of the card to test it. Let’s see how this card does against its little brother and a couple others in its market segment.
Read More1/9
2012
2012
The strength of the recently crowned single-GPU king will be put to test. Then, we will explore the possibilities once the shackles of CCC’s clock limitations are removed and a little extra voltage is added to the mix.
Read More12/28
2011
2011
EVGA is well known for their warranties, customer support, and high-end cards. Today, we have one of those high-end products: the elusive EVGA GTX 580 Classified.
Read More12/22
2011
2011
Graphics Core Next is here. Come with us on a journey to see how AMD’s new HD 7970 stacks up against the competition.
Read More11/16
2011
2011
Sapphire has launched a new version of their mid-range video card, the HD 6870 Dirt 3 Edition, and they were kind enough to send one for us to review.
Read More11/9
2011
2011
Today MSI has given us an opportunity to check out their Twin Frozr III 6950 1 GB. What makes this a bit different from other 6950′s are the 1 GB of memory and MSI’s Twin Frozr III cooler which make claims of ~14 dB quieter and 11 °C temperature differences over reference cooled models.
Read More10/28
2011
2011
Today we have the opportunity to put the HIS 6870 IceQ under the magnifying glass. Some of you that read the front page may be scratching your heads a bit saying, ‘Didn’t Overclockers.com already do this?’. You would be right, more or less. This version, however, has HIS’s monster IceQ cooler strapped to the top of this upper mid-range card and different stock clock speeds.
Read More10/26
2011
2011
Today we have a unique feature from HIS and Lucid to test out. I’m sure most of you have heard of Lucid Hydra, and it being implemented on motherboards to allow GPUs from AMD and nVidia to play nice with one another. Well, HIS decided to try putting one of Lucid’s chips on an HD6970 to allow this AMD and nVidia intermingling, and they call this feature MIX.
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