Friday, April 2, 2010

BFG BFGEGTX275896OCE NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 OC 896MB VGA Card Reviews

Large card, both length and width, April 30, 2009
By David L.

I can't give a performance review, but as far as BFG is concerned, they did an excellent job. First things first, though. The GTX 275 reference is large. It measures:

Length: 10 9/16"
Height: 3 7/8"
Width: 1 3/8"

Measurements taken from the face of the rear plate, not the mounting lip. So if you have a midtower, and have hard drives in the lower front quadrant of your case, you may have trouble fitting this card. This is the problem I ran into, so I'm returning it. Thanks Amazon, for the awesome return policy!

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

SAPPHIRE Vapor-X 100281VX-2SR Radeon HD 5870 1GB Video Card Reviews

A Solid card (mostly...) 3/13/2010
By ConQuix

Pros: Well... it's the 5870 - it's fast. Although the only games I've got that really test it are probably Call of Pripyat and the new Aliens Vs. Predator game (it looks really good I have to say). It does a great job in both games. I can crank all the DX11 effects and the regular "sunrise slowness" in Stalker isn't really noticeable with this card.

Where to Buy

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

EVGA GeForce GTX260 Core 216 Superclocked 896MB Graphics Card User Reviews

EVGA GeForce GTX 260, September 4, 2009
By MaximumPC

This card is based on Nvidia's most current GPU architecture, the GT200. Priced at $200, it's the least expensive model we tested that's capable of running Crysis at 60-plus frames per second.

If you shop for a GeForce GTX 260 card, make sure you're comparing apples to apples: Core 216 models like the one you see here are manufactured using a 55nm process, and are outfitted with 216 shader processors. Conversely, cards based on the original 65nm GTX 260 GPU remain on the market but possess only 192 processors. Both versions have a 448-bit interface to 896MB of GDDR3 memory.

Where to Buy

Monday, March 29, 2010

AMD ATI Radeon HD 5970 Review

AMD ATI Radeon HD 5970 Review
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Looking now at power consumption and astonishingly, despite being such a fast card, the HD 5970 isn't the most power hungry card on test. That said, the two cards that do beat it are the previous generation dual-chip cards, so that's not surprising. Regardless, the total system power figures of 143W at idle and 330W under load aren't in the realms of the ridiculous.

Where to Buy

Sunday, March 28, 2010

ATI Drags DirectX 11 Cards Under $100

ATI Drags DirectX 11 Cards Under $100
While I'm not entirely convinced by the benefits of DirectX 11 yet, ATI has done everyone who is a major favour today by making the entry level for compatibility lower than ever before...

The AMD owned unit has announced the Radeon '5670' which is made at the same 40nm manufacturing process at the existing 5700 line and yet drops prices to under $100. It will sit just above the existing 4670.

Raw specs? The 5670 comes with a core clock speed of 775MHz, GDDR5 memory at 1000MHz (in either 512MB or 1GB), a data rate of 4Gbps, 64MBps of memory bandwidth and a claimed overall computer power of 620Gflops. Yes, it isn't going to drag Crysis along at 100fps at 1920 x 1200 resolution - but in terms of bang for your buck it is hard to beat.

Away from the 3D performance, the 5670 can support up to three displays thanks to ATI's Eyefinity multi-monitor tech and third parties can extend this to four if they choose to produce a two slot design. There is also HDMI 1.3a output, hybrid crossfire compatibility and the usual GPU based transcoding and hardware Flash acceleration that gives your CPU a well deserved rest.

5670 cards go on sale immediately with the 512MB edition hitting that all important $99.99 RRP with the 1GB version a still highly affordable $119. Look out for your favourite third parties unleashing an avalanche of these cards as we speak...

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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Zotac GeForce GT 240 512MB Graphics Card Review

Zotac GeForce GT 240 512MB Graphics Card Review
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Results Analysis
As expected, the Zotac GeForce GT 240 comes in well short of the HD 5850 and GTS 250 cards. Without cards such as the Radeon HD 4770, Radeon HD 4670 and 9800GT to compare against it’s difficult to gauge the performance of Nvidia’s latest budget card.

Looking just at the numbers, the card performs reasonably well at 1280×1024 resolutions and using a very crude guide of 30 frames per second for a game to be smoothly playable, the GT 240 is fine until the Anti-Aliasing levels are bumped up. When this happens, the frame rates simply drop away down to single figures in some cases. We can’t be too critical here however as this is the same for most budget cards.

Where to Buy
ZOTAC GeForce GT 240 512MB 128-bit GDDR5 (550MHz/3400MHz) Graphics card ZT-20401-10L
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