Good morning! Trion’s new game, End of Nations, is having a closed beta weekend on August 10-12th, and they’ve graciously provided us a crazy amount of keys to give away. So, we thought we’d extend the invitation over to our readers. To enter in the Beta key giveaway, just tell us your favorite game you [...]

Introduction Rising energy costs, a changing usage model, increased processor functionality, increased processing power per watt and clock tick means the old big box/high end CPU combo is becoming a thing of the past. ASUS is following this curve by offering a solution (one of many) in the low power E45M1-I. By building on the [...]

As can be seen this 6670 matches the nVidia 430 and 440 and is in the 450 area. As far as the sapphire brand? The price performance compared to similarly priced cards and third fastest HWBot score (http://hwbot.org/submission/2227335_) gets it a gold.

Recently, GELID Solutions sent over some of there flagship cooling products. First up, is the Icy Vision Revision 2 GPU cooler. Some words from GELID themselves: The “Rev. 2 ICY VISION” cooler contains 5 power heatpipes in a unique heatpipe constellation. The heatpipes are interlaced into 85 optimized high-quality Aluminium fins. Together with a flat [...]

Micro Star International, or MSI as it better known, brings us one of their new G3 line of Intel Z68 motherboards today. The MSI Z68A-GD65 G3, is a feature rich, socket 1155 motherboard, designed for use with the current Intel Core i second generation series, Sandy Bridge CPUs as well as the forthcoming Ivy Bridge [...]

Spending a few hours testing at this speed using Unigine Heaven in DX11 mode as well as Tropics, Sanctuary, Stalker CoP and AvP everything was set; until 3DMark11 refused to do anything but freeze the system. At that point lowering the GPU to 992 and memory to 1388 incrementally was the only way to stabilize the benchmark.

All things considered this is a fun card to clock. Speeds ramped up easily and the results scaled quite well with the clocks.

Introduction If extreme overclocking had a name, it’d be k|ngp|n. Vince Lucido (a/k/a “k|ngp|n”) is arguably the man who got such things started in the United States. Back when most people were still gawking at the extreme ventures of a few folks pushing overclocking to new heights with water cooling, this guy started to bring [...]

ASUS has sent us their version of the Radeon HD 6950 to run through the paces today. The ASUS HD 6950 2GB is factory overclocked right out of the box by 10MHz, which really is not anything to write home about, but it’s there nonetheless. ASUS does include their voltage tweak software to help gain [...]