All the benefits of liquid cooling without the mess and the potential for disaster, fortunately it seems that Antec thought of everything when they put out the Kuhler 620 – easy installation, quality cooling and solid performance. What more could you ask for?
PowerColor’s new HD 6950 Vortex II comes with a seriously improved thermal solution compared to the AMD reference design. It also offers two adjustable fans that can be configured to make maximum use of available space. Clock speeds have been increased too, and the card was able to be modded to a HD 6970 in our testing.
The Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 uses the Turks GPU at 800Mhz and has 1GB GDDR5 memory running at 4000Mhz. The Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 has a 128Bit Memory Interface, 480 Shader Processors and DirectX 11. The Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 has competition from the earlier Sapphire Radeon HD 5670. Games used for testing are AVP, Bulletstorm, Crysis 2, Hawk 2, Just Cause 2 and Metro 2033
April 28 saw the Retail launch of the AMD Radeon HD 6770 and 6750, using the Juniper GPU core from the HD 5770 and 5750. Yep, it is a ‘technology update’ using rebranded cards for that ever-so important Blu-ray 3D compatibility. We have some thoughts on the why’s and wherefore’s on such a
move, and try to find a ray of light in this dark, foreboding move.
Asus P8P67 Standard Motherboard Review Sandy Bridge has helped to define a new style of enthusiast system by providing top end performance for a fraction of cost. Another benefit is lower overall power consumption, and let’s face it enthusiast systems aren’t running 100% all the time so why not save some power in the process.
The Radeon HD 6670 and HD 6570 video cards are based on AMD’s 40nm “Turks” GPU. The Radeon HD 6670 and HD 6650 are entry level cards aimed at the sub-$100 price point. Both the Radeon HD 6670 and HD 6570 have 480 Stream processors, 24 texture units, 8 ROPs and come with a 128-bit memory interface. The Radeon HD 6670 clocks in at 800MHz and is equipped with 1GB of GDDR5 memory at 4000MHz while the Radeon HD 6650 has a 650MHz core clock with either 512MB of fast GDDR5 or 1GB of DDR3 which consumes less power. The new HD6670 and HD6570 series Turks-GPUs were designed to continue AMD’s lead in providing low-cost high-definition playback and DirectX11 support, perfect for OEM systems and HTPC builds.
Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 560 Ti has been out for a few months now and just like pretty much every other card companies release a reference design and then they come out with an overclocked edition. Today we will be taking a look at Zotac’s overclocked edition of the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which they call the AMP! Edition. This overclocked card brings the core GPU clock up from 823 MHz to 950 MHz and the
memory clock up from 1002 MHz to 1100 MHz. The card is also bundled with a free version of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood. Let’s take a look…
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