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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…
Lenovo ThinkPad W520
The Lenovo ThinkPad W520 is not for the fainthearted. It’s a very expensive laptop. However for the money you get an extremely sophisticated machine with a fantastic screen and a powerful Intel quad-core processor. Probably best suited to those interested in graphics-intensive work, and not ideal for those who lug their laptop about daily, it’s…
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)…
Samsung SyncMaster BX2231
Samsung has a knack for putting together attractive-looking displays, and it’s fair to say that the SyncMaster BX2231 does nothing to dent that reputation. What’s it like?Samsung’s 22in, 1,920×1,080 resolution monitor is enclosed in a TV-like glossy black plastic bezel with soft edges, with a stand that has a tapered neck that flows nicely out…
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…
Lenovo L2230x monitor
If you’re on the lookout for a monitor to accompany your laptop, the Lenovo L2230x is a display that may well catch your eye. After all, a 21.5in widescreen display with a native resolution of 1,920×1,080 for just £139 certainly seems like a great deal, especially from a big-name brand like Lenovo. Wot no DVI?But…
Fujitsu Lifebook P701
Fujitsu’s P701 is small format laptop computer designed primarily for business users. You won’t find much whizz-bang flashiness about it. Our sample wasn’t quite the final build, but from what we saw, this is an impressive little laptop. Petite performerWith a 12.1in screen, dimensions of 282x220x33mm and weighing in at just 1.5kg, the Fujitsu P701…
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…
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…