Asus are one of the biggest component manufacturers on the planet producing some of the finest video cards for both Nvidia and AMD markets. Today we are looking at their new ultra high end video cards, the GTX590 and the HD6990.
The living room is the new battleground for old and new entertainment companies. Patriot’s PBO Core is one of the latest devices battling for position next to your Blu-ray player and game console. The PBO Core has a wide variety of supported formats from the current king, H.264, all the way back to Real Video. We’ll take an in-depth look to see if the PBO Core can be your core multimedia
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We loved it, and you can read our review for comparison here.
The 250GB model boasts speeds of up to 500 MB/s sequential read, and 315 MB/s sequential write. While we could have reviewed this model, at £445 it will prove to be too expensive for many potential customers. The 120GB is aimed at a more wallet friendly £220.
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To quickly summarize my thoughts regarding EPIC’s “Bulletstorm”, it would be fair to assess that said first person shooter is mindless and entertaining, but certainly not a triple-A release. That’s not to say it is a poor-quality video game, as it’s certainly well intentioned, but more to the effect that it simply isn’t worth the asking price – maybe 25 or 30 dollars would be reasonable. Now, I am going to judge this release solely from its single player campaign, as EPIC hasn’t “hyped” the multiplayer (based off of their hilarious advertisements showing the campaign mode). And, if you do additional reading in forums, it can already be inferred that multiplayer is dead-on-arrival and merely a “content annex”.
ADATA sent us their latest V2 8GB kit which runs at 2,000mhz and will be priced competitively when it reaches the United Kingdom next month at only £140. Is this a cost effective, performance related choice you should be contemplating for a system upgrade?
MSI’s new HD 6950 Twin Frozr III introduces the third version of MSI’s exclusive cooling solution. Thanks to two fans and five heatpipes the card runs at excellent temperatures. Tweakers will also love this card as they can adjust three voltages using MSI Afterburner. Another plus is that this card is able to be modded to a HD 6970 by BIOS flash.
AMD released Deneb-core based AMD Phenoms in january 2009. Alot has happened since then in processor markets; frequencies have increased and more cores available in some processors. Even though AMD has Thuban-core based hexacore processors available, the quadcore Denebs are still sold quite a bit. Today we will take a closer look at their newest quadcore processor called AMD Phenom II X4 975. Let’s have a look how it performs in our tests.
