Now to our surprise and chagrin, our first grope of the Radeon HD 4870 X2 was perilous. We came away from it a better person, maybe stronger but scarred. But we were uncertain about reencountering the double edged machine, and rightfully so. It's dangerous. The Radeon HD 4870 X2 consumes a commensurate amount of power and can withstand tremendous heat, though in the right trained hands, it is just absolutely a force. Forged of the blackest PCB, this VisionTek Radeon HD 4870 X2 is capable of bringing the fiercest games to reckoning. And only after being bested by it could we ever hope to wield it's. Oh screw it, it's just a video card. We mean, it's one of the best video cards. - TechLounge
The battle wages on between the rivals who are both fighting for domination, each side keeps pulling ahead for a while. No, it's not a new video game but rather a new line of video cards from NVIDIA. With the high performance of the updated GeForce GTX 260, NVIDIA had to update the GeForce GTX 280 to fit in better with the GeForce GTX 295 that was also recently released. Originally, both the GeForce GTX 200 series were produced on the 65nm production process, but were recently given a die shrink to 55nm, which should increase clock speed, power efficiency and overall efficiency. This shrink saves NVIDIA money since it allows them to make more GPU cores per silicon wafer. - Overclockers Club
Compro Technology, an innovative leading manufacturer and developer of PC multimedia products, presents the VideoMate Vista E500F in Belgium market, advanced PCI Express interface universal analog TV/FM tuner card. It turns your computer into a home entertainment center by bringing you analog TV viewing, video/audio capturing, and included Microsoft Certified MPEG-2 encoder directly supports TV watching/recording in Media Center of Windows Vista Premium or Ultimate. VideoMate Vista E500F also comes with the certified Windows Media Center remote which gives users the control of the Windows Media Center and ComproDTV 4 software with the Vista E500F TV tuner. - Compro Technology
If we have learnt anything over the last few years, it's never to write one of the two major graphics manufacturers off. ATI know that they can't extract enough power out of their current top cards to be faster than the two new NVIDIA offerings. The red team aren't stupid, though. If you can't beat them in performance, you hit them in value. And in these tough economic times everyone's looking for a good bang for buck product. Monthly driver updates from ATI still make the Radeon HD 4800 series of cards an attractive offering and today we'll look at what HIS has done with the top single GPU card from ATI. With a fancy cooler, some mean clocks and a decent looking bundle, worth keeping an eye out for. - TweakTown
After casting an eye over XFX's Radeon HD 4850 XXX card last week, this week it's the turn of their take on AMD's flagship graphics board, the Radeon HD 4870 X2 version. It may no longer be the king of the hill since the launch of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 295 card, but it still packs more than enough graphics processing punch for all but the most demanding of users. Now unlike many of XFX's other offerings, and this particular board uses both AMD's reference clock speeds and cooling solution, and as we've seen similarly specified boards from other vendors in the past this allows us to investigate a couple of additional angles. We will be taking a look at how performance has changed with new drivers. - Elite Bastards
Having so recently upgraded our personal computer to the Intel X58 chipset and Windows Vista, we were especially looking forward to checking out EVGA's top of the line GeForce GTX 295 graphics board. The GeForce GTX 295 is NVIDIA's latest and most powerful graphics processing unit, which is comprised of two GPU's in a single graphics card configuration. NVIDIA has plenty of experience with this type of product as the configuration was featured in their GeForce 9800 GX2 and their previous GeForce 7950 GX2. The GeForce GTX 285 and GTX 295 are NVIDIA's first consumer based GPU's manufactured at a 55nm fabrication process, which was just a requirement for this dual GPU design. - nV News
With so many graphics cards available on the market as we see today, how do you know which one to choose? Your answer should be based upon three basic things, the first on being how much gaming power you need, what can you afford and lastly what about the compatibility with your machine? Gigabyte has taken these problems into account, and introduces to us the Gigabyte GeForce 9800 GT Zalman powered graphics card. That means it is not like the standard design set by NVIDIA, but that Gigabyte id go a different route with this one. Now some of its highlights include a Zalman cooler, DirectX 10 support, and just an all solid capacitor design, but how can it handle today's hottest games? - TechwareLabs
The GeForce GTX 295 is based on two GPU's running at the same clock specs as the previous GeForce GTX 260, but having more processing cores. Zotac's model runs with the default clock speeds set by NVIDIA. On that aspect Zotac is no different than their competition as they have all followed the reference design with the settings as given by NVIDIA. And just recently Zotac did mention about as well releasing a water cooled version, or at least a version of the GeForce GTX 295 with a water cooling solution. From what we know this would be coming as the Infinity edition which as such might come with increased clocks. Let's see what kind performance you can expect from this beast. - Hardware Secrets
This year so far hasn't brought any earth shattering surprises in the world of video cards, but it has brought some small, noteworthy maneuvers. So ATI is steadily building Radeon HD 4000 boards, in many different flavors and configurations. Rumors swirl around their next project. Intel is still secretly working away on Larrabee, while publicly planning to build CPU's with a GPU in them. Assorted other companies are continuing to explore 3D realms. But what hands on action that has so far been introduced since January, has been from NVIDIA. They've introduced three new products, one of which we are looking at today being their all new refreshed GeForce GTX 285 graphics accelerator. - NeoSeeker
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 is based on two GT200b cores that are produced with the 55nm process. With the old 65nm based GT200 it was not possible to create such a dual card because of the higher power requirements and heat output. The basic thermal design of the card follows the one introduced with the GeForce 9800 GX2 which uses a heatsink sandwiched in between two PCB's which each having their own GPU and frame buffer. And in order to achieve the performance target, the GeForce GTX 295 uses SLI to make both GPU's work together. However, as end user you will not notice anything about that. You just install the GeForce GTX 295, install the driver and it just works. - techPowerUp
Back in September we looked at the Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 graphics board that offered 512MB of GDDR3 memory. Overall, this RV730 based graphics card had performed well under Linux and not a bad investment with it retailing for about $80. Sapphire though has now introduced a new version of the Radeon HD 4670 that sports 512MB of GDDR4 memory. This is a different approach to go for this memory type, and will provide a bit larger bandwdith. The remainder of their board design was kept as is, except for the cooling solution. Will switching out the GDDR3 for faster GDDR4 memory have much of an overall performance and gaming impact on this graphics accelerator, or rather limited? - Phonorix
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