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[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 ...
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...
A Madman’s Rant, AMD HD5870 1 Comment By Jason on September 27, 2009 First off I would like to say, my name is Jason Jones and I’ve been involved with PC hardware for the past six or seven years, I’ve seen the AMD Althon XP’s come and embarrass the Intel offerings. I’ve seen the Athlon 64’s come and embarrass the Intel Pentium D’s, and so on so fourth. Then the transitions from DDR to DDR2 and now as the processors and mainboards are evolving to DDR3. However the graphics card battles throughout the years and what happening now...
The 4890 – Finally in a PC most gamers would have… 1 Comment By Lardman on April 10, 2009 So, after much deliberation I decided to go out and get a 4890 – my intentions of writing a review were a sidestep – I do enjoy writing, as it does have a nice advantage of improving my personal skils. Anyhow, back on topic – It arrived Thursday, in a shiny plain box – After taking it home, I finally got around to installing it over the weekend. Overall, it would be a nice increase in performance over my 4850, and well – it’d be something to review! In with ...

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