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The ‘He Said, She Said’ Shootout: GTX480 vs. HD5870 12 Comments By The Duke on July 18, 2010 After seeing plenty of topics in various tech forums regarding the decision between the GTX480 or the HD5870, we figured it was time to chime in on the debate. With support from ASUS allowing us to review these two cards, the ENGTX480 and EAH5870, we have all of the information we need for this stand alone head-to-head. We hope that after seeing the comparisons we can help put to rest some of the debates and provide a clear cut answer to “which is the best for my money?”. The Break...
[Blog] Asus 5870 + XFX 5850 CrossFireX Mismatch 1 Comment By wez on June 30, 2010 ATI 5870+5850 CrossFireX I’ve been playing around with two mismatched GPU’s in CrossFireX. Namely a reference model HD5870 from Asus and a custom PCB HD5850 from XFX. Perhaps not the most common setup, as most would much rather go for two identical cards. But if you happen to stumble upon the odd card, then why not give it a try, right? Hardware & Software Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P AMD Phenom II x6 1090T BE Kingston HyperX LoVo 1866 MHz 2×2Gb Asus ATI Radeon HD5870 1G...
ASUS GeForce ENGTX480 w/ Voltage Tweak! 2 Comments By The Duke on June 28, 2010 The great people at ASUS have just sent us Nvidia’s latest. The ASUS ENGTX 480 is what we have in our hands today! With so much hype prior to launch and a few uncertainties floating around at the time of release, we will soon be able to provide more insight into what this card is capable of. A lot of people have been claiming that the GTX 480 will burn a house down with it’s heat output. Well, hopefully not for our sake, and we will be testing temperatures to give you some solid numb...
[Review] MSI Radeon HD 5770 Hawk 1GB 3 Comments By The Duke on May 16, 2010 MSI has launched it’s version of the ATI Radeon HD 5770 which boasts an amazing looking Twin Frozr II cooler. Their 5770 Hawk also brings with it some outstanding software and voltage control options to help you with overclocking. We will also be taking a look at their claims of a 13c temperature advantage over reference cooling designs. The 5770 is in the middle of the pack for the new generation of cards, with the 5970 in the lead and the 5450 bringing up the rear. All in all, ATI has to...
[Review] Sapphire Radeon HD5770 1GB PCI-E 4 Comments By The Duke on April 4, 2010 With the much anticipated release of the 5xxx series a success on many levels, the ATI crowd has much to celebrate. The new 5 series cards put ATI back on top of the video card market. They can now boast about the amazing DX11 compatibility and the Eyefinity technology introduced with the higher end 5 series cards. The 5770 is in the middle of the pack for the new generation of cards, with the 5970 in the lead and the 5450 bringing up the rear. All in all, ATI has to be loving the massive succes...
PAX East: Interview with Nvidia’s Bryan Del Rizzo on the GTX400 series (Updated) 6 Comments By EnJoY on March 27, 2010 After the Nvidia GeForce GTX 400 series launch event, I was lucky enough to grab an interview with Nvidia’s Senior PR Manager of Consumer Products, Bryan Del Rizzo. Bryan was kind enough to give us sometime and answered each of my questions in a detailed manner, which we appreciated. Here is what he had to say… (UPDATED: Bryan was very tired when he did this interview with me and made a mistake in mentioning that the GeForce did not contain hardware functionality for Double-Prec...
PAX East: Nvidia “Fermi” Launch Event – Live Blog! 4 Comments By EnJoY on March 26, 2010 TechREACTION.net is at PAX East tonight for the Nvidia Launch Event where they will be officially announcing the new GTX 480 and GTX 470 series of graphics cards. Many of the details of these new GPU’s have already leaked out, but tonight will we know what is true and what is false. Hopefully there will be a few surprises in store, but to find out you’ll want to keep track of this live blog from 6:00PM EST and on as we give you live updates from the launch event! Keep your eyes pee...
[Blog] 5770 CF vs. 5870 – Game Performance Comparison 11 Comments By wez on March 20, 2010 A pair of ATI 5770 1Gb in Crossfire vs. a single ATI 5870 1Gb. One could call it a fair fight considering the price point of both setups. They will be put through their paces in some of today’s game titles… Test Setup Hardware Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE (4,2GHz CORE/2,9GHz IMC) RAM: 2x 2GB OCZ Platinum (1550MHz 6-6-6) Monitor: LG W2600HP-BF 1920×1200 pixels GPU: Two ATI HD 5770 1Gb (Crossfire) & one ATI HD 5870 1Gb Software ...
[Blog] Nvidia GTX 470 benchmark results leak through the fingers? 0 Comments By Fetishgod on March 4, 2010 In the world where Nvidia “Fermi” graphics cards had been so long awaited, speculations are still the only thing most of us have. But speculations being unreliable, we can only assume that time will tell the tale. Apparently guys at Chiphell forums think otherwise. In fact, they just posted 3DMark06 benchmark results for the upcoming GTX 470. Question of course is if those are in fact legit numbers or yet another speculation on someones part. If those turn up to be true, Nvidia is he...
MSI 785GM-E65 Integrated ATI HD4200 GPU 8 Comments By The Duke on February 12, 2010 With my I7 system sitting around and only needing a video card, I decided to take it out of my AMD rig and use the IGP (Integrated Graphics Processor) the board offers. If you all are like me, it has probably been at least 10 years since you even thought about integrated graphics. With the new games that are available in today’s market these IGP’s, however much improved, will still be slaughtered. The real question however, is just how bad will these games eat up this ATI Radeon HD...
A Guide Regarding Old Graphics Cards Throttling & More 0 Comments By Oj101 on February 12, 2010 So you’re sitting a few second away from the end of your world record run of 3DMark2001 and the graphics card isn’t even chilled – you’re so hardcore you’re letting the poor GeForce 4 Ti4400 sweat it out with air cooling. Everything’s going smoothly until halfway through Nature when suddenly your framerate drops through the floor. Yip, you’ve hit thermal throttling. First off, lets get the nitty-gritties out of the way. As I’m sure you’d have...
E8400 and Qx9650 Battle Windows 7, Windows XP, and Eachother : Who or What Will Reign Supreme? Part 1 3 Comments By The Duke on December 25, 2009 My goal with this multi allotment bloodbath of tests, benches, overclocks, and all out mayhem is to explore an assortment of questions and myths and all around shenanigans accompanied with all the above. Now you may be sitting there thinking, “Well Duke no one cares about old 775 socket CPUs and for sure don’t care about reviews they have seen on other sites.” For you I say people do care, my fan club cares, and I care. This review will cover many questions and one being is it ...
The Ending of an Era: Death of my BFG 280 GTX 0 Comments By The Duke on December 22, 2009 Got to love the holidays! Good food, good friends, and hopefully good tech support from BFG. My 280 has started to show all the wonderful signs of a dying card. Play a map or 2 here and there and it locks up the computer turning my screen into a wide array of multi colored boxed. Then once the reality sets in of what just happened I hit the reset button and try to go on with my life. Losing a card as fine as this one is sort of like not getting the last cookie on the plate or getting drilled in ...
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Overclock : Bringing It Back Old School 0 Comments By The Duke on December 21, 2009 Well as I seem to be one of the very few who still hangs on to the classics. Yep you heard me, I said classics! The 8800GT was ahead of its time and absolutely dominated anything you through at it. It was such a beast I would not sell it when the next generation of cards came out. Heck, i still own it now so that is a few more generations it has stuck with me. It still plays all the games I want it to, Modern Warefare 1 & 2, Counter Strike Source, Team Fortress 2. Yes, I do realize it wont p...
Piecemeal Upgrades Pt 4 Data Protection 0 Comments By Neuromancer on December 21, 2009 The Piecemeal Upgrade pt4 Data Protection: Redundancy, backups, offline and online storage. With limited funds in a single PC household it is important to have a PC that is never down for too long. One of the key problems associated with piecemeal upgrades however is the need to occasionally reinstall the operating system. This can be a nightmare trying to back up documents, photos, settings, applications as well as operating system tweaks one may prefer. Learning how to properly maintain y...
Anti-aliasing Part 1: Supersampling – If it was a perfect world 0 Comments By randomizer on October 16, 2009 Most people can’t stand the sight of aliasing, the staircase effect most noticeable on the edges of objects (or polygons to be more precise). It’s even worse when movement is involved, as the “jaggies” often appear to “crawl.” The aliasing effect is easily described by the following image (note, all images in this post are clickable thumbnails): (Image source) A pixel must be only one colour (or no colour at all). To determine the colour of a pixel, a sample...

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