Wednesday News, September 7th 2011

Visiontek are a well known brand in North America, having produced some great AMD oriented video cards. A few weeks ago we reviewed their latest 8GB DDR1600mhz kit for Sandybridge which we managed to overclock to a whopping 2133mhz. Today we are looking at their latest 12GB (3x4gb) 1866mhz kit for the X58 platform.


Join us as we review the PowerColor Radeon HD6770 Vortex II video card, this cheap card has the ability to output to 3 displays offering full Eyefinity action at decent frame rates.


On the first of this month Kingston began shipment of their HyperX Drive Utilizing the new SandForce controller. This performance drive comes in two sizes the 120Gb and The 240Gb. Today we will be reviewing the 120Gb HyperX Bundle. Join us as we take a swing at these more than impressive speed boasts.


Enthusiast computer systems often have a certain "look" that is indicative of their intended usage. For instance systems designed for overclocking will sit at the top of the product line and often feature oversized power delivery circuits and support a multitude of graphics cards.


Like many of the other drives we have tested, the Wildfire is also pushing the read and write times significantly above the 500MB/s mark. In order to do this the Wildfire has taken advantage of the SandForce SF-2281 processor, as well as some pretty fast Toshiba NAND memory. The Wildfire is currently on the market in three different sizes which would be 120GB, 240GB and 480GB. We've been sent the 120GB model so follow along as we see just how raging this Wildfire is.


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Outfitted with a real X-Fi chipset and a KillerNIC E2100 to score maximum kills, Gigabyte's latest from the G1.Killer series, the G1.Sniper2, hits TechPowerUp's boot camp. Ready to jump into trenches and enter combat, we put the Intel Z68-equipped G1.Sniper2 in the front lines, target in sight.


The Zotac GTX 590. It's the Zotac revision of nVidia's current monster dual chip card that no body is going to buy because it's so expensive, more than you need blah blah blah. Despite that though, it's always exciting to see what a GPU like this can do. It's as fast and as powerful as you can get; let's see it destroy out benchmark suite.


The Mushkin Chronos Deluxe is an SSD bred through a company that, like many others, has a framework in the memory field to rely on. Unlike many others though, Mushkin's lineage starts at the base of The Rocky Mountains and their 'Welcome Message' by Company President, D. George Stathakis, speaks of community values and ideals often lost in the realm of technology. Today's report examines the Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 240GB 6Gbps SSD. Let's see if these values can carry through to our final statement.


Hot off the back of our Steelseries competition, we've teamed up with the guys over at Cooler Master to give you the chance to win some more hardware. Up for grabs today we have the Silencio 550 case, the GX 550w PSU and the Storm Sentinal gaming mouse.


This particular board is said to offer extreme performance and some unique features that will be appreciated by people much like myself. As usual, we'll take a look at the packaging, board, BIOS and then put it under our extreme rigorous testing procedures to see how well it can cope, but just from what we've heard about this board, we hold high hopes in terms of performance, overclocking and just having that general wow factor, whilst maintaining stability when needed the most.