Maingear SHIFT Supercomputer uses Radeon HD 5970 Video Card

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Maingear launched its Shift personal supercomputer a while back. The company has announced that with the official introduction today of the ATI HD 5970 video card it is adding the world's most powerful graphics card to the Shift.

Buyers wanting the best machine they can get can order a pair of the new 5970 video cards inside the Shift giving the machine a whopping 10 teraflops of processing power. I can only imagine the cost of this rig with the two cards. Read more

Posted on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:50:44 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Pricing for Radeon HD 5970 Leaks

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Pricing for the upcoming AMD 5970 video card has been leaked online early, thanks to a posting from ZipZoomfly. The video card brings back the very expensive high-end video card range with a price of $599.99.

Some specs leaked a while back on the card. We know it will have 1GB of RAM for each of the GPUs on the board. We also know that the early samples were huge at 13.5-inches long. The card also requires an 8-pin and a 6-pin power connector. Read more

Posted on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

AMD Radeon HD 5700 Series Graphics Cards Get Official

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We already know all there is to know about AMDs new Radeon 5700 series video cards including the 5770 and the 5750. The details and even pictures were leaked last week ahead of the official announcement today.

AMD has gone official with the cards that both fully support DirectX 11 and Eyefinity multi-monitors from ATI. The video cards deliver over one teraflops of computing power. The GPUs are built on 40nm technology and have up to 800 stream processors. Read more

Posted on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

ATI Radeon HD 5770 And HD 5750 Review Round-Up

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The leaked ATI Radeon HD 5770 and HD 5750 video cards are official and several hardware sites have published their reviews.
The HD 5770 and HD 5750 cards are attacking the sub-$200 price segment. TechSpot's verdict about the 5770: "At $160 the Radeon HD 5770 appears to be picking up where the Radeon HD 4870 left off. Unfortunately we found the new card to be running slightly short on performance compared to both the Radeon 4870 and the GeForce GTX 260." Read more

Posted on Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:19:54 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB in CrossFire Tested

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AMD unveiled the new ATI Radeon HD 5800 series earlier today. We already published a HD 5870 Review Round-Up.
Tweaktown tested the new ATI Radeon HD 5870 also in Crossfire setup.
Quote from the review: "We're not going to blabber on too much here, because we're sure you don't want to read about us having two HD 5870s. You just want to know what happens when we put those two HD 5870s into the one system and run our flurry of benchmarks. Read more

Posted on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:05:50 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Review Round-Up

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AMD unveiled today the new ATI Radeon HD 5870 and HD5850 high end graphics cards that support the new Windows 7 DirectX 11.
Several hardware sites already got their hands on the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and published performance analysis and reviews of the new ATI HD 5800 Series cards.
The reviews of the ATI Radeon HD 5870 lead to promising results putting NVIDIA on the spot to deliver something to beat the new ATI Cards. Tweaktown writes: "So that's our first HD 5870 and to be honest the card is a whole lot better than I expected it to be. The HD 5870 really had to do one thing; that was beat the NVIDIA GTX 285. The thing about that, though, is it had to do that one thing well. The good news? It does; it manages to do it very well."
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Posted on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New ATI Radeon HD 5870 And 5850 Are First To Support DirectX 11

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Today AMD launched the most powerful processor ever created, found in its next-generation ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards, the world’s first and only to fully support Microsoft DirectX 11, the new gaming and compute standard shipping shortly with Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.

Boasting up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of compute power, the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series effectively doubles the value you can expect of your graphics purchases, delivering twice the performance-per-dollar of previous generations of graphics products. Read more

Posted on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:08:16 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

HIS Unveils Radeon 4890 iCooler x4 video Card

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It's been quiet on the new video card front over the last few months and HIS has finally broken that silence with the introduction of a new ATI Radeon video card called the HIS HD 4890 iCooler x4. The video card sports 1GB of GDDR5 Memory.

The card has a special cooler to keep the high-performance card cool while playing your favorite games that HIS calls the iCooler x4. The card has a core clock of 850 MHz and the memory is clocked at 3.9Gbps. I have never seen a card that clocks memory that way, HIS offers no MHz speed for the memory on its website. Read more

Posted on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:08:10 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

XFX ATI Radeon HD 4770 Video Card Review

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Today I am checking out one of the latest XFX ATI video cards called the XFX HD 4770. The video card is a budget offering that still manages to impress with its performance.

If you are looking to build up a budget gaming machine, the XFX HD 4770 is a fantastic option. The card can be had for under $120 online. Read more

Posted on Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:34:03 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

ASUS Radeon EAH4870X2 Tri-Fan Graphics Card Review

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Tweaktown published a review of the ASUS Radeon EAH4870X2 Tri-Fan Graphics Card.
Quote from the review: "A while ago we heard ASUS was going to mix it up with the HD 4870 X2 and today we've got the card in our hand and we're going to take the time to see exactly what ASUS has done with this HD 4870 X2 to make it stand out from the pack. Read more

Posted on Tue, 5 May 2009 18:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

ATI Radeon HD 4770 unveiled

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AMD today launched the ATI Radeon HD 4770 GPU based on the state-of-the-art 40nm manufacturing process with a launch prices as low as $99.
The ATI Radeon HD 4770 graphics card is the newest addition to the ATI Radeon HD 4000 series.

The ATI HD4770 features third-generation hardware support for the latest DirectX 10.1 games like Battleforge, HAWX, S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky and Stormrise, delivering higher game performance and improved visual quality when compared to DirectX 10. Read more

Posted on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:04:25 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

XFX ATI Radeon HD 4890 XXX Video Card Review

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Today I am looking at the XFX HD4890 XXX overclocked video card. It's great to see XFX offering overclocked ATI video cards along side is famous overclocked NVIDIA cards.

The HD 4890 XXX is the highest performing factory overclocked 4890 card that XFX offers and it comes bundled with a full version of the HAWX video game from Tom Clancy. ATI fans will want to check this review out. Read more

Posted on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:22:35 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

New MSI GT725 Notebook featuring ATi Radeon HD4850

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MSI announced the GT725 Gaming Notebook. MSI outfitted the GT725 with Intel Centrino 2 Processor Technology. The ATi Radeon HD4850 video card, a Blu-ray player and a 17 inch 1080P HD LCD display.
MSI built the GT725 in its brushed aluminum gaming case with stamped aluminum sheeting for increased protection and durability. However, despite the rugged case and a standard 9-cell battery, the GT725 weighs just over seven pounds. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Mar 2009 07:28:31 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

ATI Launches ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000

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At CES 2009 last week AMD/ATI launched a new family of mobile graphics processors called the HD 4000 series. Within the series is a range of parts from mainstream to enthusiast segments. Some of the mobile GPUs in the family also support Crossfire.

The family includes the HD 4800, HD 4600, HD 4300, and HD 4500 GPUs. The big improvement here for AMD/ATI is that the mobile GPUs now offer all of the features that we have become used to in desktop GPUs. The HD 4800 series will also be the first mobile GPUs to make use of GDDR5 memory. Read more

Posted on Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:13:10 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Palit Radeon HD 4870 Sonic 1GB Graphics Card Review

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Tweaktown published a review of the Palit Radeon HD 4870 Sonic 1GB Graphics Card.
Quote from the review: "When the HD 4870 launched a few months back, it did come as a bit of a surprise that we couldn’t see any 1GB models on offer. Really, in this day and age it does seem weird to have such a high-end card carry only 512MB of memory. Read more

Posted on Fri, 7 Nov 2008 03:32:47 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

ATI Radeon HD 4830 Card launched by AMD

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Today AMD introduced the ATI Radeon HD 4830 graphics card, raising the performance bar for graphics cards priced at less than $150 (USD)
Like all ATI Radeon HD 4800 series products, the new offering delivers game performance and HD multimedia capabilities, as well as support for the latest DirectX 10.1 games soon to be released for the holiday season.
With the launch of ATI Radeon HD 4830, even the most intimidating games that were previously unplayable on a graphics card selling for less than $150 can now be enjoyed at playable frame rates, even when using image enhancements such as anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering.

For those gamers looking to get even more performance out of their gaming rigs, ATI Radeon HD 4830 cards support ATI CrossFireX technology, allowing gamers to combine as many as four cards in one PC. Read more

Posted on Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:37:33 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Palit Radeon HD 4870 Sonic Dual Edition Review

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Techgage published a review of the he Radeon HD 4870 Sonic Dual Edition graphics card.
Quote from the review: "It's no secret that the HD 4870 is one of the best overall GPUs on the market right now, but with so much selection from vendors, it's hard to choose the "best" one. Palit has a definite winner with their Sonic Dual Edition though. Read more

Posted on Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 Review

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Tweaktown published a review of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 Graphics Card.
Quote from the review: "The low to mid-range market has been heating up over the past few months; NVIDIA released the 9500 GT which I personally felt was a massive disappointment due to the price to performance ratio when compared to the 9600 GSO. Read more

Posted on Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

ATI Radeon HD 4550 and ATI Radeon HD 4350 Cards announced

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AMD today announced the ATI Radeon HD 4550 and ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics cards, the latest additions to the ATI Radeon HD 4000 series graphics line up.
Both cards are based on the same technology found in the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series, including support for the latest DirectX 10.1 games and HD multimedia capabilities.

The ATI Radeon HD 4550 graphics card plays demanding game titles previously unplayable by cards in this price segment, and for less than $59 for a 512MB memory configuration. The ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics card is the ideal introduction to the ATI Radeon HD 4000 series, priced for less than USD $39 for a 256 MB memory configuration, giving gamers and multimedia enthusiasts more features than products available from the competition today. Read more

Posted on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:03:01 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Lower Your Radeon Video Card Temps without spending a Penny

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ThinkComputers explains how you lower Your Radeon Video Card Temps without spending a Penny.
Quote: "While researching HD 4850 card prices at NewEgg for a review, a line on a user review caught my eye: "after I did the fan speed mod in CCC.". Huh? Fan speed mod? "The" fan speed mod? Hmmm..someone knows something that I don't. Read more

Posted on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 Review

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AMD announced the new mainstream video card series HD 4600 today. Hexus has published a review of the Sapphire HD 4670.
Quote from the review: "ATI fits in practically more of everything with this card: more shading, texturing, and antialiasing performance. Harnessed together, the underlying technologies for Radeon HD 4670 GDDR3 make it the fastest graphics card in its pricing sector, and the 2D multimedia feature-set isn't bad. Read more

Posted on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr