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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…
AMD FX-8150 3.6GHz Bulldozer processor
AMD’s new Bulldozer architecture is a major change from its previous Phenom and Phenom II processor technology, as it introduces us to an eight-core processor. That’s eight hardware cores, rather than four cores using Hyper-Threading – with the release of its first Bulldozer chip, the FX-8150, AMD genuinely is breaking new ground. It may sound…
AMD A8-3850 processor
It has been quite a while since AMD brought processors to the market that have caught people’s attention – but with its new A series of APUs (Accelerated Processing Units), it has done just that. The new desktop Llano APUs (codenamed Lynx) are aimed at the mainstream market and combine a quad-core CPU, GPU and…
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…
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…