Today we will be taking a look at the new HIS and Sapphire 5970's and as they sent us two of the cards apiece we felt it would be a good time to to cover Crossfire X configurations - for those of you rich enough to be able to afford two of these monster graphics cards. We also overclock our watercooled Core i7 processor to 4.1 ghz and the memory to 1800mhz to mirror a real life environment for a potential customer of two of these high end boards - we want CPU limiting at a minimum.
What are you thinking for your next Graphics Card?
I’m happy with what I’ve got for the moment - 9.39%
I’m going for a top end AMD Radeon HD5890 - 12.91%
I’m going for an AMD Radeon 5 series - 28.25%
I’m waiting for more DX11 games to come out - 21.7%
I’m waiting for NVIDIA GeForce ‘Fermi’ cards - 27.75%
from 5750 to overclocked 5970 CFx....
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dual core processor and dedicated NVIDIA ION graphics
Fri 20 November 2009, 9:22
increasing shipments of 5800 series graphics processors
Thu 19 November 2009, 21:31
100% of proceeds going to charity
Thu 19 November 2009, 15:53
by 50% - Schwarzenegger in agreement
Thu 19 November 2009, 12:43
how to boot and run linux from a drive
Fri 20 November 2009, 15:17
featuring 333 Onboard Acceleration, 3-Way SLI and CrossFireX
Thu 19 November 2009, 14:06
Greater Power Wattage and New PowerCache Technology
Fri 20 November 2009, 9:33
and their growing popularity with younger audience
Fri 20 November 2009, 8:35
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Ultra X4 500W PSU Today we bring you the review of the least powerful product of the series, the X4 500W unit. It is a product designed to offer the high quality and aesthetics of the X4 series to enthusiasts looking something a bit above the ordinary for their mainstream home and office computers. ...Read Here Discuss |
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Shuttle XPC SX58H7 The first XPC was released in 2001 and since then Shuttle have continually been upgrading the range to utilise as many desktop features as possible into a compact chassis. One of the latest models to be released is their Core-i7/X58 based system the SX58H7 and today we have one on our test bench to ...Read Here Discuss |
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Roccat Vire Gaming Headset Today we are going to look at the ROCCAT Vire gaming headset which is optimized for mobile gaming, although still compatible with any PC, and similar to the Razer Moray+ headset we recently reviewed....Read Here Discuss |
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Nesteq ASM XZero 500W PSU Today we are going to have a look at a product from Nesteq a German computer products designer, the ASM Xzero 500W power supply. What makes the Xzero unique is that although it has a cooling fan it only uses it when the internal temperature rises above a certain temperature, making it what we would ...Read Here Discuss |
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AMD Roundup November 2009 Today we look at the new AMD processors - the revised Phenom II 965 Black Edition and the Athlon II X3 435. We also look at the DFI DK-790FXB-M3H5 and the stunning new Sapphire Vapor X 5870 and watercooled Powercolor 5870 LCS....Read Here Discuss |
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Windows 7 : ATI DX10 V DX11 Since our last articles on Windows 7 the ATI Radeon 5800/5700 series of graphics cards have launched and two games are now available which have DirectX 11 features. Today we take a look at performance and image quality differences between DirectX 10.0 /10.1 and DirectX 11 when running Windows 7 on ...Read Here |
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Batman nVidia PhysX Analysis We will analyse multiple physX setups to suit all ranges of investment, from a wallet busting dual 295 GTX quad sli configuration to a much more affordable 250 GTS with 9400 GT. You don't need to spend a fortune to enjoy Batman: Arkham Asylum, but you certainly can get benefits from more than one vi...Read Here |
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Windows 7 Gaming Performance Versus XP & Vista In the latest of our articles focusing on Windows 7 we look at the gaming performance when compared to Microsoft's older operating systems, namely Vista and XP. Many people (and websites) still hail Windows XP as the OS of choice so today we will ascertain if you should be making the leap to Windows...Read Here |
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Windows 7 - Features In anticipation of Windows 7 going on sale in October we are publishing a selection of articles which will help our readers get the most out of the operating system. Last month we published a guide explaining how to install Windows 7 and this month we take a look at some of the new and enhanced feat...Read Here |
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Photoshop Guide: Using Textures It appears many of you remember my Photoshop guides from years ago as I still get emails asking to create more to help you guys get the most out of your designs and creative ideas. As you may know I don't believe in making these guides extremely complex because many people reading this will have a c...Read Here |
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