The HD6970 is a very close relative to the HD6950, but the HD6970 has all the performance of the Cayman core unlocked and ready to go. So then, what’s the impact on performance? Let’s find out!
For those of you who are not wanting to create an extreme gamer liquid cooled system there have been a various number of liquid cooling systems that are ‘self-contained’. Recently we saw the release of the Antec Kuhler 620 and how this proved to be a fairly popular and certainly a powerful cooler. Today we have its
newer big brother, the 920, which is meant to be even better and designed more at the more serious computer user as it is priced at a fair bit higher than its older brother.
Today, we will be taking a look at Gigabyte’s mid-range Z68 board entitled the Z68X-UD3H. Granted, the Z68 is not much more than hyped up hybrid version of the P67+H67 chipsets, but unlike most things you think of that are hybrid it is not some scaled back product. No sir, it pulls no punches and takes full advantage of what people have come to know the the P67 and H68 chipsets for, but also offering some new goodies like Intel’s Smart Response Technology and the new Lucid Virtu software. Read on as we explore one of Gigabyte’s entrants to the Z68, while see if it stacks up to all we hope and expect from it.
Water cooling has been around for quite some time now, but with today’s new most recent developments in making each unit more compact delivering a high performance we are really seeing a change and huge progression in this area of the industry, especially with products like we have here for you today. Today we have for you the Antec KÜHLER H₂O 620 which delivers high-performance liquid cooling for your CPU in a quick, easy-to-install package. Unlike traditional liquid cooling systems, this self-contained unit comes prefilled and requires no maintenance. So let’s take a look at its effectiveness.
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When k|ngp|n got started, one of the major hurdles was how to properly cool his components with LN2. Since devices did not exist with which he could accomplish thos, he started designing and building prototype LN2 containers (“pots”) which he could mount to the computer hardware in order to apply the LN2 to effectively cool the components. He started out doing this for his own adventures, but very quickly became overwhelmed by requests from other enthusiasts seeking to buy copies of the containers he was building. Seeing a golden opportunity, in 2006, k|ngp|n founded his business kingpincooling.com (aka “KPC”) and is now mass-producing his pots for enthusiasts all over the world. And R&D has not stopped, so he has continuously reevaluated and improved his designs to perfect his containers according to user demands and the changes in computer hardware. That brings us to the subject of our review today, the new line of KPC’s LN2 containers.
We are testing the AMD Athlon II X4 645 against the AMD Athlon II X2 265, AMD Athlon II X2 255 and AMD Athlon II X2 240 Processors to find out if Quad Core really is better than Dual Core. The fight between the AMD Athlon II X4 and AMD Athlon II X2 is going to be brutal. All of the AMD Athlon II Processors supports MMX+, 3DNow+, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4A, x86-64 and AMD-V. We will be using some demading Benchmarks for testing the AMD Athlon II Processors which are:- Windows Experience, Cinebench,
Computmark, Everest, Geekbench, Nuclearus and Performance Test. Games are Hawk 2, Lost Planet 2, Mafia 2, Metro 2033 and Resident Evil 5.
