Tuesday News, July 5th 2011

The Sapphire Radeon HD 6770 uses Juniper GPU at 850Mhz and has 1GB GDDR5 memory running at 4800Mhz. Sapphire Radeon HD 6770 has 128Bit Memory Interface, 800 Shader Processors and DirectX 11. Sapphire Radeon HD 6770 is compared to the XFX Radeon HD 6790. Games used for testing are AVP, Bulletstorm, Crysis 2, Hawk 2, Just Cause 2 and Metro 2033.


This review is going to look at the Dell ST2220T 21.5" Touch Screen Monitor. For quite some time, the thought of a full size touch screen monitor has recurred in build considerations as it just seems that 'touch' can make things faster and more enjoyable. Having watch closely over the past few years, there seem to have been many trial and error lessons learned and only after our visit to Computex did a touchscreen become a serious consideration. We owe a bit of a thank you to Gigabyte for that. It seems that Gigabyte has moved forward with 'Touch Bios' in their new motherboards and what better way to demonstrate but on the Dell ST2220T 21.5" Touch Screen Monitor. We were hooked. Well… if the truth be told, I was hooked and my lovely Associate Editor beside me stood there shaking her head and thinking , "Not again". I will be the first to admit that my expertise (if we can call it that) lies in the realm of solid state drives but every now and then something comes along that I just have to put to print.


Gigabyte is coming out of the gate with the GA-990FXA-UD5 AM3+ Motherboard. The Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 AM3+ Motherboard is feature rich and Bulldozer ready, but is still fully compatible with existing AM3 processors. Featuring amenities such as USB 3.0, 8 SATA III connections (with 3TB support), PCIe slots capable of three way CrossFire-X or Sli, and onboard HD audio, the GA-990FXA specs like an enthusiasts dream.


Case, Cooling and Power





(And our Review of the same.)



OCZ's Agility 3 is the company's latest mid-range solid state drive based on the Sandforce SF-2281 which supports the SATA 6 Gbps interface. As flash chips Micron 25 nm chips are used which promise to provide excellent performance for this 240 GB SSD.


ADATA knows that SandForce-driven SSDs are a win-win combination of performance and speed. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the ADATA S511 solid state drive. Based on the popular new SandForce SF-2281 SATA 6GB/s controller and fast IMFT-branded NAND flash components, ADATA claims the AS511S3 is capable of 550 MB/s read and 510 MB/s write speed with 4K random write speeds as high as 60,000 IOPS in real world testing. We test these claims, and compare performance to competing storage solid-state solutions in this review to find out which SSD is best.


There are many different companies trying to sell you GPUs out there and each one of them is trying to make themselves unique. Today we're looking at an MSI card that does that in looks and name, the N560GTX-TI Twin Frozr II. It's got a fancy looking cooler and 560GTX TI performance. It should be a good combination, let's see.


ByteSized





There is a lot offered by the Maximus IV Extreme in addition to the support of Intel's Sandy Bridge processor and SATA-III, thanks to the P67 chip. It also packs incredible cooling, extreme performance and an over-abundance of overclocking options (if there is such a thing). For those that have the budget for such a powerful motherboard like the Maximus IV Extreme, the sky truly is the limit. We can't wait to put the board through its paces, so let's get on with the show!