Kingston are regarded as one of the biggest manufacturers of memory based products today and aim to cater for all types of systems from the likes of AMD and Intel, whether it be for the low-end market, high-end gamers or enthusiast/overclocking markets. They do it all. Kingston has sent us one of their HyperX 1800MHz memory module kits to look at. It’s a dual channel kit which operates at 1800MHz with a CAS latency of 9 and whilst this doesn’t sound like anything too spectacular, this memory kit is made for stability and compatibility across all platforms.
AMD released the original 6870 back in October and almost every video card manufacturer had reference models. It has been a while since the launch and now we are seeing manufactures come out with their own versions of the 6870, one such company is ASUS. They have sent us their HD 6870 DirectCU which features ASUS’s in house PCB design, a slight overclock up to 915 MHz and the DirectCU (direct copper) GPU cooling solution, which ASUS says will cool the GPU up to 20% better than the stock cooler. Let’s take a look at this card and see if it is perfect for your gaming needs.
Powercolor Radeon 6790 uses Barts GPU at 840Mhz and has 1GB GDDR5 memory running at 4200Mhz. Powercolor Radeon 6790 has a 256Bit Memory Interface, 800 Shader Processors and DirectX 11. Powercolor Radeon 6790 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 the PNY GTX570. This card is a reference NVIDIA design equipped with 1280MB of GDDR5. The PNY GTX 570 offers full DirectX 11 support and ships with the core clock speeds of 732 MHz and the 1280 MB of GDDR5 is clocked to an effective 3800 MHz.
Sandybridge systems have been well received by both the press and the public, with a compelling price to performance ratio. At the higher end of the market however Intel’s X58 platform still remains the performance king, and today we are looking at a high density memory kit from Kingston which is targeting more than just the performance gamer.
AMD releases the Radeon HD 6790, a $150 gamer card designed for Full-HD gaming performance. Featuring the Barts chip in ‘LE’ configuration, we test it against some serious competition in the form of EVGA’s GeForce GTX 460 1GB SC, as well as the Radeon HD 6850 and 5830, in 1080p and Eyefinity 3.
AMD’s Caicos GPU has arrived … again, after being launch as OEM only early this year. Check out the features and performance of the AMD Radeon HD 6450, and how the same architecture tweaks seen in the HD 6800 series deliver real next generation performance in the $60 price point.
