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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…
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)…
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…
Palicomp Phoenix i5 Sniper PC system
Overclocking is the way to tease the best performance out of a PC system, but it’s not for the faint-hearted. That’s why an increasing number of PC manufacturers supply machines that are ready-overclocked and souped up for those not confident enough to implement these tweaks themselves. Chillblast and Cyberpower are big names that spring to…
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…
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…