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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…
Zotac Zbox AD03BR Plus U
Zotac is well known for its Zbox range of compact, feature-packed nettop machines – but until now, most of them been based around Intel’s low-power Atom CPU. The latest addition to the range, the Zbox AD03BR Plus U is based instead around AMD’s Fusion platform. With an AMD Zacate E350 APU clocked at 1.6GHz and…
Sapphire HD6670 Ultimate
The latest addition to Sapphire’s Ultimate range is the Radeon HD6670 Ultimate. As well as being passively cooled, the card supports Eyefinity and comes with a redeemable voucher to download a free copy of DiRT3 in the box. Clock speedsNo prizes for guessing that the dual-slot HD6670 Ultimate is built around AMD’s 40nm HD6670 (Turks)…
Foxconn NT-535
After the craze for netbook computers started to die down – mostly due to the sudden rise in popularity of tablets – manufacturers struggled to find a way to use up their massive oversupply of Intel’s low-powered Atom chips. The answer they came up with was the ‘net-top.’ Best thought of as a netbook without…
Sony Vaio C Series VPC-CA1S1E
As you’d expect from Sony, the new Vaio C Series is something of a looker. Our review model was the white version of this mid-range lifestyle laptop which comes in a choice of four other colours: black, pink, orange and green. The latter two are garishly bright and have light-emitting diodes embedded in the chassis,…
Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra
It’s been a while since Sapphire ventured into the motherboard market, but with the launch of AMD’s Fusion and Intel’s Sandy Bridge technology the company has decided to re-launch its motherboard line. Using AMD’s technology is a no-brainer, as after all they are AMD’s biggest manufacturing partner in the graphics card sector – but the…
Sapphire Radeon HD5850 Extreme graphics card
Whenever AMD or Nvidia releases a new graphics architecture, there’s a tendency never to look back – the new is always better. That may be so, but in doing so you’d overlook some excellent cards that people raved about when they first appeared. Sapphire latest cards hark back a generation to the 5000 series of…
Mesh Ultima i5-B
The Mesh Ultima i5-B is a rebadged variant of MSI’s GX660R gaming laptop. First impressions of the machine are that it’s a bit chunky but quite aesthetically pleasing, finished in black with touches of silver trim (the touchpad buttons themselves are silver, and provide a robust clicking action). The whole build is sturdy, if a…
Dell Inspiron 15R N5110
Last September we had a close look at Dell’s new Inspiron 15R 15.6in laptop, which had a respectable Intel Core i5-450M CPU clocked at 2.4GHz allied to a punchy AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5470 graphics card. While general performance was good without being exceptional, it seemed generally overpriced and had noticeable design issues. Dell has…