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[Review] GELID Icy Vision Rev 2 GPU Cooler 5 Comments By GSG-9 on October 12, 2011 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 stack fin soldered Copper base, they enable the most efficient heat transmission and dissipation from GPU core in its class. Besides the heatsi...
[Review] ASUS HD 6870 DirectCU 1 Comment By The Duke on July 19, 2011 Today, we have the ASUS HD 6870 DirectCU, with a custom PCB design, that will be going onto our test bench to see how closely it performs to the marketing hype. The DirectCU line of cards from ASUS are catered to the overclockers out there in the market. The DirectCU has precision mounting, putting the copper heatpipes in direct contact with the GPU for better cooling performance. ASUS has also implemented their SAP, Super Alloy Performance technology, which uses high quality capacitors, MOSFETs...
[Review] ASUS HD 6950 2GB – Voltage Tweak 3 Comments By The Duke on April 4, 2011 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 a better overclock, which we aim to attempt as we have in all of our reviews. The ASUS HD 6950 is also fitted with a non-reference, full aluminum cover to help dissipate heat better. The HD 6950 c...
[Review] EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti Superclocked Edition 4 Comments By The Duke on March 24, 2011 EVGA has supplied us with their take on the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, the EVGA Superclocked Edition. The EVGA SC edition is the second-lowest-clocked card of their factory overclocked cards. The first is the FPB edition, then the SC, followed by the SSC and the FTW editions. The EVGA GTX 560 Ti comes overclocked by about 75MHz on the core and 50MHz on the memory. Judging from previous overclocking results on past cards, this should still leave plenty of headroom to go higher. We will find out just h...
[Review] Zotac GTX 560 Ti 4 Comments By The Duke on March 3, 2011 Today we look at Zotac’s take on the “Hunter” – the GTX 560 Ti. Running at stock speeds (822/1000) this is Zotac’s entry level GTX 560 Ti card. They have three GTX 560 Ti cards on the market, the basic version which we have for review today, as well as the factory overclocked AMP! and OC editions. Using the GF114 silicon, we expect to see a noticeable improvement in power consumption, temperatures and performance. Let’s get down to business and toss the Zotac ...
[Review] Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti – GF114 is mean! 8 Comments By The Duke on January 25, 2011 The hunter has been released, again, but most people will come to know it as the GTX 560 Ti. The Ti on the end may bring back memories to many of the old-school gamers. Around 2002, Nvidia came out with the Ti line. First with the GeForce 3 series and later with the GeForce 4, however, it disappeared shortly thereafter. But now it is back with a vengeance on the GTX 560 line of cards. Of course, this premium line of cards will go for a little more money, but hopefully the performance makes i...
[Review] EVGA GeForce GTX 570 SuperClocked 4 Comments By The Duke on December 29, 2010 EVGA has sent us their first factory overclocked GTX 570 card to hit the market. The SuperClocked edition of the GTX 570 will be followed by two more factory overclocked editions, the SSC and FTW. The latter two have not yet reached the marketplace, so until then, the EVGA GTX 570 SC will have to quench our thirst for a powerful GTX 570 graphics card. The GTX 570 is supposed to bring improvements in power consumption and temperatures using the new GF110 architecture. We will be sure to test ...
[Review] EVGA GTX 460 FTW Edition 4 Comments By The Duke on October 28, 2010 With the success of the GTX 460 release, Nvidia is looking to continue providing top quality products with their new line of 4XX series GPU’s. The EVGA GTX 460 we have today is made with a new Fermi-based architecture, GF104, which primarily boasts of lower power consumption and lower temperatures. We will be diving in to evaluate how the GF104 stacks up to the older GF100 in order to see if the improvements are noticeable. Also, we will be putting the EVGA GTX 460 1GB FTW Edition through th...
[Review] EVGA GeForce GTS 450 FTW Edition 3 Comments By The Duke on September 13, 2010 With the new release of the GeForce GTS 450, Nvidia has targeted a specific segment of the market with a suggested MSRP starting at $129, which makes this a very budget-minded card. They went after, or as they say “laser targeted”, the gamers who don’t play everything on max settings with super high resolutions. Instead, their focus was on the people who play with resolutions of 1280×1024 through 1680×1050 on monitors of 17″-22″. The GTS 450 is the repla...
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...

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