So only a few months ago AMD released their newest Radeon HD 5800 series of graphics cards which quickly became a big success simply due to the numerous improvements made over previous generations. Up to recently all cards available from all manufacturers were reference design boards which means they were all made to the same specifications, using the same components and then a sticker was added on the cooler depending on the brand. Now we are seeing more and more custom designed Radeon HD 5850 cards that use a non reference cooler and PCB design. While this allows for considerable production optimizations and reduction in cost, it also risks that it might not work as optimally. - techPowerUp
Well DirectX 11 and the Radeon HD 5000 series have finally hit the mainstream market in the form of the Radeon HD 5670 graphics card. Priced at $99, it's the most affordable way to experience DirectX 11 features like hardware tessellation and compute shaders. Gigabyte has designed an slightly overclocked version of the Radeon HD 5670 graphics card, which bears the OC suffix. ATI has produced several sweet spot cards over the past year, and through aggressive pricing and new manufacturing techniques ATI has managed to get all of these video cards into that $100-150 range that bring excellent gaming performance at a fair price. Will the Radeon HD 5670 be worthy to join such hallowed company? - PCStats
We are always up for a good fight, but over the past few years we've realized that there are rather two battles that we just can't win. One is telling people that the video cards they want to buy have more memory than they need and if they want to save a few dollars while getting almost identical performance, go for the one with less memory. The second is convincing people that those budget CrossFire or SLI setups just aren't worth it, as almost every time you could get an single card solution that's going to perform slightly better for what is usually a slightly lower price. And high memory cards of course have their place in the high-end segment and so does CrossFire and SLI in that same segment. - TweakTown
Well we have has just released a new version of NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) software. NiBiTor is the original and definitive BIOS tweaker that supports the latest NVIDIA graphics cards, and which is updated on a regular basis. NiBiTor allows graphics card enthusiasts, or the hardcore overclockers to have full control over some advanced features and functionality found on firmware of supporting cards. And doing so users gain some extra performance, enable certain hidden features, tweaking memory latencies, provide extensive information, adapt bootup settings, changing fan speed options and/or get extra stability on their NVIDIA based graphics accelerators which will just give them that little extra value.
This Zotac GeForce GT 220 powered with 1GB memory is a new graphics board targeted towards the low-end market. It has a customized cooling system and it should satisfy most consumers looking for a video card with good high definition capabilities. In July of last year NVIDIA began the transition 40nm manufacturing technology with two new models destined for the low-end market, the GeForce GT 210 and also the faster GeForce GT 220. They were actually never destined to be sold as full retail cards but as the market has developed, NVIDIA now has full retail version of both of them. The full story behind might simply be that they had to start selling something new before they bring out the big guns. - TestSeek
Every month we have a new graphics card launch it seems. This month it could be two with the Radeon HD 5830 rumored to come out in the final week of this month as well. We have mentioned a few times that while NVIDIA have started from the bottom and are working their way up, ATI chose to start at the top and work their way down. So while that's been true for the most part, the Radeon HD 5830 would actually slot in between. But today we are not looking at that, we are checking out the new Radeon HD 5670 from Sapphire which is the new lowest end model to come in to these ATI series and sits directly below the previously released Radeon HD 5750, which has quite impressed us. - TweakTown
Well we have has just released a new version of NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) software. NiBiTor is the original and definitive BIOS tweaker that supports the latest NVIDIA graphics cards, and which is updated on a regular basis. NiBiTor allows graphics card enthusiasts, or the hardcore overclockers to have full control over some advanced features and functionality found on firmware of supporting cards. And doing so users gain some extra performance, enable certain hidden features, tweaking memory latencies, provide extensive information, adapt bootup settings, changing fan speed options and/or get extra stability on their NVIDIA based graphics accelerators which will just give them that little extra value.
The roll out of ATI's latest series video cards have put NVIDIA on notice that they are going to compete for both performance and price points. These Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5970 were a one two punch that showed just how well they did there homework. Currently there is not a response from the green team that compares on a like for like basis. So while the high-end is taken care of the mid-range has not suffered either since their Radeon HD 5770 and Radeon HD 5750 deliver enough horsepower to play today's popular games. This Diamond Radeon HD 5750 that we will be looking at carries an improved cooling solution which is designed by Arctic Cooling, and looks to be very popular. - Overclockers Club
When you think video cards, you think of those major vendors such as Sapphire, Gigabyte, EVGA and XFX among a few others between these two rival camps. Well, today we are looking at a board from a company that is unknown to most Americans, but has actually been around for over twenty years, Axle. Based out of Hong Kong, Axle primarily sells their NVIDIA based products around Asia and Europe which is why they have remained under the radar to most end users in America. They are currently only available at a small online e-tailer, Fookbuy and they hope to spread across to all major retailers and this will sure be a welcome addition as more manufacturers means more competition. - Legit Reviews
The story to these overclocking session is in fact a very amusing one since we weren't intended to break any world record with the card. When this first article was posted on the front page, MSI called and asked where the LN2 overclocking results were as the Lightning series are designed to be used for some extreme overclocking. Although the card was going to be tested on LN2 somewhere later this month, having a vendor request for LN2 testing is something extraordinary, especially for reviewers. So, instead of postponing this session, we decided to do it last Friday. As agreed, their graphics card landed on our desk a few days early to prepare it for the LN2 session for some serious overclocking. - Madshrimps
Those Vapor-X are one of Sapphire's lines when it comes to offering performance graphics cards. With the main focus being on cooling thanks to a completely new cooler, when compared to the stock one we've seen the series perform well, not only recently but ever since its introduction. Recently we had a chance to look at the Radeon HD 5750 and Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X models. After looking at both of them there was a clear hole in the middle with the much loved Radeon HD 5770 and Radeon HD 5850 not being part of the lineup. The good news is that this Raden HD 5770 has now joined the Vapor-X series and if the whispers we hear are true, the Radeon HD 5850 shouldn't be that far either. - TweakTown
GLY GTX275 (OC) PCIe 0896MB - Rev 01
