Articles by Simon Crisp
Sapphire Radeon HD6970 FleX Edition
Sapphire’s FleX Edition range of cards have been designed to make it easier to implement AMD’s Eyefinity multi-screen technology. This is without having to resort to using a DisplayPort equipped monitor, or having to buy expensive third-party active dongles. You have to use one of these two options for a standard card, as you can’t…
HIS Radeon HD6670 iSilence 4
As you might be able to glean from the name, the Radeon HD6670 iSilence4 from HIS is the latest in a long line of passively cooled and therefore silent graphic cards, from the Hong Kong based company. This latest member of the iSilence family is based around AMD’s HD6670 (codename Turks) 40nm core – which…
Samsung 830SSD 512GB (MZ-7PC512D/EU)
In early 2011 Samsung reminded the world that they actually make SSD’s. This was when they launched the 470 series of drives, with a 3Gb/s interface that received well-deserved praise but unfortunately the timing of the launch was around the same time as Sandforce unleashed its mighty SF2000 series of SATA 6Gb/s controllers. These left…