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Radeon HD 5970 - ATI's killer graphics card

You know what else is impressive?The foot long length of the thing.Alsothe noise level from the leaf-blower coolers to keep this thing from burning your house down.Seriously though, down for getting one, but not till a 3rd party gives us one with some custom cooling options. Although I guess they...

Tags: killer graphics card, Radeon HD 5970, Radeon HD, Radeon, ATI Technologies Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

ATI debuts Radeon HD 5870 with 'most powerful processor ever created'

Mad Mike Magee 35th of 50 TOP Britons in IT & 5870 Diagram:Thomas Stewart Von Drashek Pat Moorhead: MUCH TO THE CHAGRIN of Nvidia, AMD/ATI today launched its RV870 architecture with the highly anticipated Radeon HD 5850 and HD 5870 graphics cards.We could spend a whole day writing about...

Tags: processor, ATI Technologies Inc., card, Radeon HD 5870, Radeon HD, NVidia Corp., Radeon

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Gigabyte GV R435OC-512I - graphics adapter - Radeon HD 4350 - 512 MB

Gigabyte GV R435OC-512I - graphics adapter - Radeon HD 4350 - 512 MBGigabite 4350This card works very well I installed this card in a Dell GX-280 over a week ago the small form factor case the manufacture of card recomends a 400W power supply as all knows the Dell GX-280...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Monitors & displays, card, Dell GX-280, graphics adapter, Radeon HD, Microsoft Windows Vista, Radeon, adapter, graphics

Discussion threads 2009-05-31

ATI to replace Radeon HD 4830 with HD 4770

ATI to replace Radeon HD 4830 with HD 4770What's the hardwareThe reason for the 48XX series is for the additional streaming processors and Memory Interface. the memory interface only has 128. So I wouldn't recommend this card as a replacement for the 4830.Also, the 4800 series has 800...

Tags: ATI Technologies Inc., HD 4770, Radeon HD 4830, Radeon HD, card, Radeon

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 (PCI-e 2.0, 2GB, GDDR3)

AMD bestowed its ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 graphics chips exclusively on board partner Sapphire to bring to retail. It started at $399 when it launched back in November, but prices have come down as low as $299 for the 2GB version reviewed here. At that price especially, we find...

Tags: PCI, Video cards, PCI Express, Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2, SAPPHIRE, Sapphire Radeon, Radeon HD, Radeon HD 4850, Radeon, card

Product reviews 2009-02-06

Sapphire make the Radeon HD 4650 and HD 4670 even better

Sapphire make the Radeon HD 4650 and HD 4670 even betterNeed some help Adrian!!!Adrian, I like to think of myself as somewhat tech-savy. Last year I bought an MSI ATI 2600 with 256 mbs of GDDR4 ram for about $110. I get decent performance with older Source games at max...

Tags: Games, Radeon HD 4650, HD 4670, Radeon HD, SAPPHIRE, Radeon

Discussion threads 2009-02-03

Radeon HD 4550/RV710 sneak peek

Radeon HD 4550/RV710 sneak peekUniversal Video Decoder and Blu-RayI just acquired an ATI-based HD3870 card, and it was a substantial improvement over my previous Radeon X1950 Pro. CPU usage for Blu-Ray playback dropped from a maximum of 80% to a maximum of 30%.This is clearly a benefit of the...

Tags: Radeon, Radeon HD 4550/RV710, Radeon HD, ATI Technologies Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-11

Diamond Viper Radeon HD 4850

As a standalone 3D graphics card, and depending on the game, AMD's new $199 ATI Radeon HD 4850 is very competitive with Nvidia's $229 GeForce 9800 GTX+. What's potentially more exciting is that the 4850 also seems to scale better in dual-card Crossfire mode than anything Nvidia has for the...

Tags: Processors, Right Now IT, Radeon HD 4850, Radeon HD, Radeon, card, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Product reviews 2008-06-24

Radeon HD 4850 - Another GPU that fails to keep up with the aging 8800 GTS

Radeon HD 4850 - Another GPU that fails to keep up with the aging 8800 GTSThis is a great surpriseAMD said that the new 4XXX graphics card range would give movie realistic gameplay...guess it's marketing...Well...I have to say, that GTS is a great card! I've used it in my work...

Tags: AMD GPU, Radeon HD 4850, Radeon HD, Radeon, GPU, GTS, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., NVidia Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

GIGABYTE lifts lid (a little) on unreleased Radeon HD 4850

GIGABYTE lifts lid a little on unreleased Radeon HD 4850What does it do?When I boot up am I even using the video card?The drivers are not installed yet.Is their card bypassed and some not even close to default BIOS setting accessed?Digital video is frames and some header frame size and...

Tags: Corporate communications, PRODUCTIVITY, Radeon HD 4850, Radeon HD, Radeon, video

Discussion threads 2008-06-04

Additional Resources

Radeon HD 5970 - ATI's killer graphics card

Thought that ATI's Radeon HD 5870 is a killer graphics card? Well you ain't seen nothing yet - until you've seen the Radeon HD 5970. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Video Card, ATI Technologies Inc., Graphics, Radeon, Video Cards, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-11-19

ATI Radeon HD 5970 is world's fastest graphics card

Isn't this card a little.... bigEven for most gaming class full-tower PC's?No, this is typical for high-end gaming cardsMost ATX cases will handle this. The main problem might be the power supply!And It's ATI...So I Will PassATI is garbage....I'll wait for NVIDIA's 300 series response...I was an ATI fan...

Tags: Games, ATI Radeon HD 5970, video card, ATI Radeon, graphics, ATI Technologies Inc., NVidia Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

ATI Radeon HD 5970 is world's fastest graphics card

AMD has just announced today their newest graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 5970, which they are touting as "the fastest card ever created." Get ready. AMD is proclaiming many firsts with this card. Besides being the fastest, it's the one of the first...

Tags: Card, Video Card, ATI Radeon, Overclocking, ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, ATI Radeon HD 5970, HD 5970, Video Cards, Hardware, Components, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Apple iMac (21.5-inch, 3.06Hz Intel Core 2 Duo, Nvidia GeForce 9400M, Fall 2009)

We awarded Apple an Editors' Choice for its new $1,699 iMac, largely because its 27-inch screen dwarfs its competition in that price range. So what to make of Apple's new lower-end iMac? At $1,199, its 21.5-inch screen is hardly the size leader for its price, and without a touch screen...

Tags: Desktops, Intel Core 2 Duo, Nvidia GeForce, Acer Aspire Z5610, Intel Corp., NVidia Corp., Apple iMac, Apple Inc.

Product reviews 2009-11-17

AMD turbo boosts Flash Player 10.1 with ATI Stream technology

AMD seems to be the more viable choice nowThey certainly have improved their offerings over Intel and NVIDIA, which both seem to be up in the air at the moment. Intel isn't focused on offering good mainstream performance for the dollar - they're only working on Atom and the...

Tags: Chipsets, Processors, Semiconductors, Macromedia Flash Player, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., AMD 785G, GPU, AMD Athlon, chipset

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Sony Vaio L117FX (Core 2 Quad Q8400s 2.66GHz, 6GB RAM, 1TB HDD, Windows 7 Home Premium)

Had Apple not introduced a 27-inch iMac for $1,699, we'd have fewer reservations about Sony asking $1,999 for its new 24-inch Vaio L117FX. Yes, HP's TouchSmart 600 expanded on some of Sony's innovations from its previous generation all-in-ones. Sony also doesn't even attempt to match HP's creative multitouch software. But...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, RAM, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Sony Vaio, Sony Corp., HDMI

Product reviews 2009-11-13

Gateway NV5207u

The Gateway NV5207u is what happens when a slow processor happens to an otherwise respectable budget-priced laptop. It's a good-looking notebook with a large screen, a decent port assortment, and a couple of extra features to sweeten the deal. But its AMD processor is a poor performer despite being dual...

Tags: Processors, Gateway Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., processor

Product reviews 2009-11-05

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Laptop computers

This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things more complicated. Second, there's a fresh crop of Windows 7 laptops, and...

Tags: Processor, Hard Drive, Performance, Apple MacBook, Memory, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Intel Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Compaq CQ61z, Timeline 1810T, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Apple iMac 27-inch

If we could, we'd take points away from this iMac simply because by giving it a 27-inch display Apple threatens our livelihood. You don't need our input to simply walk past the 27-inch iMac on a store shelf and recognize that it's the largest all-in-one currently available, and that it...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Inc., screen size, Apple iMac

Product reviews 2009-10-21

Asus Eee Top ET2002

Nvidia wants us to tell you that its GeForce 9400M graphics chip, aka Nvidia's Ion technology, pulls Asus' Eee Top ET2002 up from the depths of Nettop misery by imparting it with better-than-terrible graphics and video processing. We agree that the 9400 chip improves the ET2002's visual chops, but a...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Games, Semiconductors, Keyboards, Video cards, Game players, nettop, chip, game, HDMI, ASUS, graphics

Product reviews 2009-10-20