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Asus GTX 590 (ENGTX590)
AMD has held the fastest video card in the world crown for quite some time now, with the ageing Radeon HD 5970 still more than capable of beating off competition from the fastest NVIDIA cards. The first Fermi-architecture release from NVIDA, the GTX 480, was far too hot to spawn a dual-GPU variant, but after…
HIS HD 6870 IceQ X Turbo X
There’s a predictable rhythm to the launch of each new generation of graphics chipset. The launch of AMD’s Radeon HD 6850/6870 and 6950/6970 in February followed a familiar pattern. The initial crop of graphics cards followed the reference design very closely: the cooler came straight out of AMD’s parts bin, and the clock speeds were…
Toshiba Tecra A11
Let’s get one thing out of the way right at the start. If you want a laptop that will make your friends coo with envy when they see it, the Toshiba Tecra A11 isn’t it. There’s no wow factor here in the visuals department. And now we think about it, the build quality is actually…
Acer ICONIA Tab W500
The Acer ICONIA Tab W500 is such a clever idea. You take a tablet, then provide it with an optional keyboard that effectively turns it into a notebook computer. Put Windows 7 on it so that it can be used in a professional environment. What could go wrong? What could go wrong?The thing is… while…
Sapphire – Radeon HD6990 4GB
When AMD launched its ‘Northern Island’ series of GPUs, first with the HD6870 and HD6850 cores (code-named ‘Bart’), and more recently the ‘Cayman’ cores (HD6970 and HD6950), the one everyone really wanted to see was the dual-cored flagship Antilles, now released as the Radeon HD6990. With the wait over, we leapt at the chance to…
Dell – Inspiron Zino HD 410
The idea behind Dell’s Zino HD 410 – a PC that’s attached to your TV – has been round for years. The first flurry of lounge-based PCs appeared when Microsoft launched Windows XP Media Center version in 2002. The Media Center side of things was (and still is) impressive – but most of the home-theatre…
Sapphire – Radeon HD6870 FleX Edition
The first card to feature Sapphire’s FleX solution for AMD’s Eyefinity technology, the Radeon HD5770 FleX, went down a storm when it was launched in mid-2010. It enabled users to create a three-monitor Eyefinity setus without having to buy a monitor with the specialised DisplayPort input, or use an expensive dongle. Now that technology has…