Live Benching with Bobnova on Dry Ice

Today we have a second NZXT HALE82 N series unit, this time it’s a 550 W. The 750 W flavor turned out to be solid, this unit looks to be on the same platform. This is a good sign. Will it pass with flying colors? Will it explode? You’re going to have to read the review to find out!

Come watch hokie’s first (gasp!) sub-zero experience in all its glory tonight at 8:45p.m. EST.

UPDATE: Last night’s event is over, but Hokie had some great results which he’s shared inside this article’s comment section.

HIS sent us not one, but two of their brand new 7850 iPower IceQ Turbo 4GB cards. I find the combination of 4GB of RAM and a 7850 to be a bit odd as a single card has little hope of driving enough monitor to need more than 2GB. A pair of cards on the other hand, have a chance. In Crossfire (and SLI) the GPU RAM is not added together, a pair of 2GB cards still gives you 2GB. Thus for high resolution (or extremely high detail) use, two 2GB cards might not cut it. Enter the 7850 4GB cards! Inexpensive enough to crossfire (I hope), plenty of RAM for top end stuff. The main question is, does a 7850 core have enough guts to push that many pixels? I aim to find out.