We have seen many retailers’ sites featuring this line of cards and we have the opportunity to look at one today. The ASUS Radeon EAH6850 boasts this DirectCU cooling technology, as well as a 790MHz overclocked Barts GPU up from the default 775MHz. Based on AMD’s latest TSMC 40nm processing, the HD6850 tops out at a mere 127 watts for power consumption. Meaning a good 500W power supply should be good enough to power one of these beauties.
The entire name of the card is HD6870 IceQ X Turbo X, and it features the same IceQ X-cooler as the HD6850 we already saw earlier. What else does the card offer? Let’s find out!
Powercolor Radeon 5770 uses RV850 GPU at 850Mhz and has 1GB GDDR5 memory running at 4800Mhz. Powercolor Radeon 5770 has a 256Bit Memory Interface, 800 Shader Processors and DirectX 11. Powercolor Radeon 5770 has competition from the Palit GeForce GTX 550. Games used for testing are AVP, Bulletstorm, Crysis 2, Hawk 2, Just Cause 2 and Metro 2033.
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Today we are looking at Patriot Memory’s Supersonic USB 3.0 flash drive. It is the standard form factor that you’re used to, but with a quad channel memory controller inside. Patriot boasts that this will reach up to 100 MB/s peak read speeds, and an amazing 70 MB/s write. If you are still using a dual channel USB 2.0 drive, you are probably writing data to it at about 10 MB/s peak.
