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

Pics of ATI 5970 Dual-GPU video card leak

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Some information and pics of an upcoming video card from ATI have been leaked, it's called the 5970 with dual GPUs on one card. The card in the leaked images has an 8-pin and a 6-pin power connector to give it enough juice.

The card is a whopping 13.5-inches long, which means that many cases won’t be able to fit the card inside thanks to its length. Apparently, AMD already forced the site to remove the performance specs listed. Read more

Posted on Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

XFX Unveils GeForce GT 220 and 210 Video Cards

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XFX has launched a couple new low-end NVIDIA video cards called the GeForce 210 and GT 220. The lower-end GeForce 210 is a budget offering that is clocked at 589 MHz on the core and has a 64-bit memory bus. The card has 512MB of DDR2 RAM that runs at 800 Mhz. Outputs include VGA, DVI-D, and HDMI.

The GT 220 is available in two versions. The GT-220X-ZNFC has a GPU clock of 625MHz and a memory bus that is 128-bit. The 1GB of RAM is clocked at 800MHz and the card has VGA, HDMI, and DVI-D outputs. Read more

Posted on Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:33:40 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

AMD ATI 4800 Series Video Cards in iMac and Mac Pro Computers

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AMD has announced that its line of HD 4800 video cards is being used inside of some of Apple's iMac and Mac Pro computers. Apple has been using NVIDIA video cards and GPUs in many of its systems, but they GPUs have been failing in many of its computers.

AMD says that its GPUs complement Snow Leopard's fully OpenCL Verison 1.0 implementation. The specification is a key enabler of ATI Stream technology that allows developers to balance application workloads across the GPU and the CPU. Read more

Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

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

Tritton Offers Two External Video Cards at Best Buy

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Tritton has announced that a pair of its external video card solutions are now available at Best Buy. The two products are the See2 UV150 and the See2 Extreme. The UV150 is a cheap external video card solution that needs only a USB port to add an additional monitor to a computer.

The UV150 is a VGA external video card while the See2 Xtreme is an external DVI video card solution. The Xtreme also uses a single USB port for power and connectivity. Both external video solutions are used to add a new display to your PC without having to add a new internal video card. Read more

Posted on Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:00:00 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

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

NVIDIA Announces GTX 275 Video Card

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NVIDIA has announced a new video card today called the GTX 275 that offers what NVIDIA calls first rate graphics, physics, and GPU computing performance along with a great price for value conscious gamers. The card is based on the GT200 architecture and has 240 processing cores running at 1404MHz.

The GTX 275 has 80 texture processing units, a 448-bit memory interface, and an 896MB frame buffer. The card sits between the NVIDIA GTX 275 and GTX 285 in price and performance. NVIDIA says that the GTX 275 is the highest performing video card in the $229 to $249 price range. Read more

Posted on Thu, 2 Apr 2009 06:46:49 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

XFX GTX 285 Black Edition Video Card Review

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Today we are checking out the XFX GTX 285 Black Edition overclocked video card. This card shines at high resolutions on the latest video games with all of the features turned on. If you want to play the latest Call of Duty game at high resolutions, this is the card for you.

XFX offers a fantastic warranty and has bundled the card with a full copy of Far Cry 2. The game is great and worth $50 alone. The Black Edition I am looking at here is one of the highest performing GTX 285 cards available. Read more

Posted on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:08:24 CST | by Shane McGlaun

PNY GTX 280 Video Card Review

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Today we are looking at the PNY GTX 280. This video card now carries a new lower price and a spot on the NVIDIA food chain a few steps below where it sat last year. Despite the fact that the video card is no longer top of the chain, it still performs very well.

The PNY GTX 280 is a stock clocked video card but offers plenty of performance for gamers looking to run a single video card with options for upgrading to SLI or 3-way SLI. Read more

Posted on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:23:08 CST | by Shane McGlaun

The Eye-Fi Video Card is Last Gadget Standing 2009

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The upcoming Eye-Fi card that can directly upload video to Youtube (see this report) won the Last Gadget Standing 2009 award at the CES 2009. Eye-Fi won LGS 2008 as well.
Despite not being ready the upcoming Eye-Fi card won the heart of the LGS 2009 audience and the crowd has been cheering the loudest. Read more

Posted on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pick the Perfect Video Card for Your Core i7 PC

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Yesterday I talked a bit about finding the best deals on the main components for a Core i7 CPU and Intel X58 chipset gaming machine along with the triple-channel RAM the machines take advantage of. Today we are going to look at another of the key components you will need if you are trying to build a Core i7 gaming rig -- the video card or cards.

One of the best features of the new X58 chipset mainboards is that it supports both NVIDIA SLI and ATI Crossfire technology so you can have multiple graphics cards from both vendors. That opens up a world of choices for the gamer since you can get one board and then find the best deal on graphics cards no matter the brand.

For fans of NVIDIA, the hottest graphics card offered at this time is the GTX 280. The GTX 280 is expensive without a doubt and if you want the best performing of the breed, the factory overclocked units cost even more. Newegg doesn't offer XFX's XXX or Black editions of the GTX 280, but it does offer the stock clocked XFX GTX 280 for $459.99 right now before an additional $10 mail-in rebate. Newegg offers gamers on a tighter budget the EVGA GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked Video card for $259.99. The Superclocked version is EVGA's factory overclocked card. Gamers on an even tighter budget can get the XFX 9800 GTX+ Black Edition, one of the highest performing 9800 GTX + cards available, for $229.99 before a $30 mail-in rebate. Read more

Posted on Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:52:12 CST | by Shane McGlaun

XFX GTX 280 XXX Video Card Review

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Today the XFX GTX 280 XXX video card is up for review. This is the factory-overclocked version of the GTX 280 we looked at a few months back. The card shares the same features in common with the factory clocked GTX 280.

Support for NVIDIA PhysX, CUDA, and HDCP are standard. Of all the versions of the GTX 280 offered by XFX, the XXX has the highest clock speeds. Read more

Posted on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:58:14 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

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

ATI Radeon HD 4600 Video Cards unveiled

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AMD today announced the ATI Radeon HD 4600 video cards for mainstream gaming and HD multimedia performance while consuming less power than a standard light bulb.
Comprising the ATI Radeon HD 4670 and the ATI Radeon HD 4650 graphics cards, the ATI Radeon HD 4600 series leverages the technology found in the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series, including support for the latest DirectX 10.1 games.
The ATI Radeon HD 4670 and ATI Radeon HD 4650 graphics cards feature AMD’s TeraScale graphics engine, with 320 stream processing cores, and are based on AMD’s advanced second generation 55nm process. Read more

Posted on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:40:15 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

MSI N280GTX OC HydroGen and Super OC Video Cards unveiled

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MSI announces the MSI N280GTX OC HydroGen video card with the highest clock setting on the market and micro channel water cooling solution.
MSI also tunes up the clock settings of the original fan cooling N280GTX series and makes MSI N280GTX-T2D1G Super OC the highest clocked GeForce GTX 200 series in the world.

The MSI N280GTX OC HydroGen series runs the world highest core clock setting at 700MHz, but has 10 Celsius lower temperature level than normal fan cooling GeForce GTX 200 series even at full workload. Read more

Posted on Wed, 3 Sep 2008 01:41:41 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

BFG GTX 280 OCX 1GB Video Card Review

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Hardware Canucks published a review of the BFG GTX 280 OCX 1GB Video Card.
Quote from the review: "Through the last few years, BFG has always been at the forefront of the pre-overclocked craze and with their OCX cards, they take things to the next level. Read more

Posted on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Foxconn NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT G96 Video Card Review

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Benchmark Reviews published a review of the Foxconn GeForce 9500 GT G96 Video Card.
Quote from the review: "Not everyone can afford the bleeding edge of graphics hardware, and not everyone needs it. NVIDIA has already made headlines with their high-end GeForce GTX 280 video card, which offers high performance at a premium price. Most enthusiasts have seen so much coverage for the high-level graphic products that it might feel like nothing exists for the lower consumer segment. Read more

Posted on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

ASUS EAH4870X2 TOP Video Cards announced

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Asus announces new ATI HD 4870 X2 based graphics cards with the ASUS EAH4870X2/HTDI/2G and the ASUS EAH4870X2 TOP.
The ASUS EAH4870X2 TOP/HTDI/2G and EAH4870X2/HTDI/2G are slated to be upgraded soon with a specially designed fansink for efficient heat dissipation.
Read more

Posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:56:39 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

BFG GTX 260 896MB Video Card Review

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Hardware Canucks published a review of the BFG GTX 260 896MB video card.

Quote from the review: "Both the GTX 260 and the GTX 280 were launched a little over a month ago and while the higher end 280 was available immediately at launch, the less expensive 260 was greeted with a paper launch. Since that time, Nvidia seemed to have been surprised by ATI's launch of the HD4800-series of cards which turned out to be extremely successful and performed above what many expected them to. Read more

Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr