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[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 ...
[Blog] 5770 CF vs. 5870 – Game Performance Comparison 16 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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