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HIS Radeon HD 5750 iCooler IV Video Card Benchmarking | Posted on: 30/12/2009 @ 15:20

The HIS Radeon HD 5750 graphics card features a dual slot GPU cooler called the iCooler IV. This cooling system moves a massive amount of cool air from the central cooler to cool down the internal fins directly. Heat from the 5750 GPU can rapidly transfer to internal fins that extend under the cooler. Read on to see if the fan performs better than others found in this series!

HIS Radeon HD 5750 iCooler IV Video Card | Posted on: 28/12/2009 @ 3:40

ViewSonic VOT132 NVIDIA Ion Nettop – Redefining Small Size and Power Usage | Posted on: 23/12/2009 @ 5:50

NVIDIA Releases 195.30 Linux Beta Driver | Posted on: 23/12/2009 @ 4:50

Before going off on a holiday recess, NVIDIA's Unix graphics driver team has put out a new NVIDIA driver beta release in the 195.xx driver series for Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris. Just shy of a month ago NVIDIA had put out the 195.22 Linux display driver that delivered on VDPAU improvements, support for NVIDIA 3D Vision Stereo, better DisplayPort monitor handling, and many other enhancements. ...

AXLE GeForce GT 240 Video Card Review | Posted on: 22/12/2009 @ 14:51

The AXLE GeForce GT 240 is a more than capable card given it is in the $100 budget range. This card brings all the latest and greatest technology from NVIDIA to the table such as full support for HDMI 1.3a, CUDA, PhysX, Direct Compute, 3D Vision and Open CL with great overclocking potential to enhance performance even further. Read on to see how it does!

Nouveau TV-Out Progresses For NV30/40 GPUs | Posted on: 22/12/2009 @ 14:40

With the Nouveau driver earning itself some new attention now that its DRM code has been pulled into the Linux 2.6.33 kernel, there is another important milestone worth sharing. The Nouveau driver now has TV-Out working and being considered "done" for the NV30 class GPUs (the GeForce 5 / FX series) and is mostly done for NV40 GPUs (the GeForce 6 series)...

XFX Radeon HD 5770 XXX 1GB / Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 Vapor-X 1GB | Posted on: 22/12/2009 @ 12:28

Now that AMD\'s mainstream Radeon HD 5700 series parts have been available in the market for a couple of months or so, we\'re starting to see more boards deviate from the company\'s reference design in an attempt to offer something different to potential buyers. Today, we take a look at two such boards with very different agendas, from the heavily overclocked XFX Radeon HD 5770 XXX through to ...

NVIDIA 3D-Vision: Blu-Ray, Cameras, Projectors | Posted on: 22/12/2009 @ 6:20

Benchmark Reviews tested the NVIDIA GeForce 3D Vision Gaming Kit when it originally launched back in January, 2009. Comprising a set of battery-powered LCD shutter glasses, the infrared emitter to drive them, and special 120Hz refresh-rate monitors, it enabled high-quality 3D gaming with hundreds of games, as long as you had a sufficiently powerful NVIDIA video card. In 2010, NVIDIA is ...

Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo Pro GPU Cooler | Posted on: 22/12/2009 @ 3:40

Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 Vapor-X 1GB Video Card | Posted on: 21/12/2009 @ 5:30

NVIDIA Linux 2009 Year In Review | Posted on: 20/12/2009 @ 17:10

Another annual tradition of ours besides running a Linux Graphics Survey is to provide a "year in review" analysis of the ATI and NVIDIA Linux drivers with their respective graphics driver releases from the past year in terms of both feature improvements and how their quantitative performance has changed. We have been doing these annual ATI and NVIDIA yearly reviews going back to 2005, but now ...

XFX Radeon HD 5850 HD-585A-ZNFC Review | Posted on: 19/12/2009 @ 2:26

XFX knows that gamers want unmatched performance from their hardware, which is why they now supply ATI Radeon desktop graphics as well as NVIDIA GeForce products. There\'s no better time for AMD-designed video cards than now, as the Radeon 5800-series has climbed to the top of gamers\' most-wanted list. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the XFX Radeon HD5850 HD-585A-ZNFC video card against ...

ATI Radeon HD 5970 @ InsideHW | Posted on: 17/12/2009 @ 16:22

After the launch of first DirectX 11 graphics cards, ATI secured its market position and next logical step is: filling of gaps in product lineup. ATI starter new series with models that belong to higher mid-range (HD 5770 and HD 5750) and according to announcements during launch of HD 5870 model, next model that will be introduced should be ATI’s DirectX 11 top graphics card. Since ...

Radeon DRM Power Management Moves Along | Posted on: 17/12/2009 @ 3:10

Over the past month or so there has been a lot of work done by Rafał Miłecki and other open-source driver developers in providing open-source power management support under the ATI Radeon DRM code-base. In fact, the power management support has been the hold-up for moving the Radeon kernel mode-setting support out of the staging area of the Linux kernel, which is expected to still happen ...

The FTC Sues Intel Over CPU & GPU Competition | Posted on: 17/12/2009 @ 0:30

With settlement talks breaking down, the FTC has sued Intel over anti-competitive actions in the GPU and CPU markets. We take a look at the charges, and what the FTC wants done to remedy matters....

Radeon HDMI Audio Set For Linux 2.6.33 Kernel | Posted on: 16/12/2009 @ 14:00

The Direct Rendering Manager code in the Linux 2.6.33 kernel has received many improvements including the KMS page-flipping ioctl, DisplayPort monitor support for ATI KMS, R600/700 interrupts support, support for unreleased Intel IGPs, and many other changes. Coming after this initial pull request was also the Nouveau DRM driver and VMware's vmwgfx DRM driver...

Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 Vapor-X 1GB graphics card | Posted on: 16/12/2009 @ 7:30

Quieter and better than the reference cards? We find out.

NVIDIA Releases New X.Org DDX Driver | Posted on: 16/12/2009 @ 2:20

Only 11 code commits have been made to the xf86-video-nv driver (that only touch about 100 lines of code) since the 2.1.15 driver update back in September, but coming out this afternoon is xf86-video-nv 2.1.16. The xf86-video-nv 2.1.16 update now provides mode-setting support for the new NVIDIA graphics cards released over the past few months, including but not limited to the GeForce 310, ...

Review of Sapphire Vapor-X HD 5750 1GB GDDR5 graphics card | Posted on: 15/12/2009 @ 12:00

Sapphire is back with a new exciting series of graphics cards called “Vapor-X” which has a very special cooling solution. In this review I will be taking a look at the Sapphire Vapor-X HD 5750 card. INTRODUCTION The Radeon 5000 series of graphics cards were rather recently released by AMD/ATI and for the very first time in [...]

XFX Radeon HD 5850 Black Edition 1GB | Posted on: 15/12/2009 @ 9:14

Having taken a look at a reference clocked Radeon HD 5850 board last week, we now have an opportunity to turn our attentions to what\'s available in the world of factory overclocked Radeon HD 5850 boards. More specifically, today we\'ll be shifting our focus to XFX\'s Radeon HD 5850 Black Edition, which follows this particular AIB\'s usual practice of sticking with a reference cooling solution, ...

NVIDIA's Response To Recent Nouveau Work | Posted on: 14/12/2009 @ 20:40

Last week after many DRM improvements went into the Linux 2.6.33 kernel Linus Torvalds got a bit upset and wanted Nouveau merged into the mainline kernel. After all, it's been in development for a few years and offers a vast feature-set compared to the xf86-video-nv DDX driver even if this driver is still somewhat experimental...

Review: Palit GeForce GT 240 Sonic 1GB | Posted on: 14/12/2009 @ 14:10

Here we have the Palit GeForce GT 240 Sonic 1GB; at its most basic, a hybrid of the 9600GT and 9800GT, but made on the new 40nm process like the previously meh (sic) GT 210 and GT 220 releases. This overclocked edition from Palit is the 1GB GDDR5 version and at £80 it's jumping into an incredibly packed area of the market. To be truthful, all areas of the graphics market are pretty crowded at ...

Review: HIS Radeon HD 5750 | Posted on: 14/12/2009 @ 14:10

We checked out the reference design of the ATI HD 5750 last month and, to be honest, it got the sort of reception we'd normally give to a visit by Peter Mandelson. Actually, that's not true, nobody tried to punch him in the face. Anyway, it didn't do particularly well. Now the graphics manufacturers are producing their own versions and here we've got the HIS version with a whole new cooler on it. ...

Review: HIS Radeon HD 5750 | Posted on: 14/12/2009 @ 10:30

We checked out the reference design of the ATI HD 5750 last month and, to be honest, it got the sort of reception we'd normally give to a visit by Peter Mandelson. Actually, that's not true, nobody tried to punch him in the face. Anyway, it didn't do particularly well. Now the graphics manufacturers are producing their own versions and here we've got the HIS version with a whole new cooler on it. ...

ASUS ENGT240 1GB GDDR3 Video Card Review | Posted on: 14/12/2009 @ 4:55

As enthusiasts, we\'re always interested in the latest monster video cards: the expensive, high-end products that blast through benchmarks and play all your games with buttery-smooth frame rates at the highest resolutions with all the settings maxed out- and sucking a not inconsiderable amount of electricity while doing so! But these products represent only a tiny fraction of the number of video ...

XFX HD5770 Video Card Review @ Tweaknews | Posted on: 14/12/2009 @ 3:02

XFX\'s version of the HD5770 videocard is a great performing DirectX 11 videocard for the money. This videocard and its excellent reference cooling loves to overclock and performs beyond expectations for a mainstream videocard. In fact, two of them would make a highly affordable crossfire setup for slightly over US$350.

Review: Palit GeForce GT 240 Sonic 1GB | Posted on: 13/12/2009 @ 13:10

Here we have the Palit GeForce GT 240 Sonic 1GB; at its most basic, a hybrid of the 9600GT and 9800GT, but made on the new 40nm process like the previously meh (sic) GT 210 and GT 220 releases. This overclocked edition from Palit is the 1GB GDDR5 version and at £80 it's jumping into an incredibly packed area of the market. To be truthful, all areas of the graphics market are pretty crowded at ...

NVIDIA 190.53 Pre-Release Linux Driver | Posted on: 12/12/2009 @ 14:20

For those not interested in the Nouveau driver, head on over to NVIDIA's FTP server as a new 190.xx driver is available. Late last month NVIDIA released the 195.22 beta Linux driver as the first in this new driver series, and while there are new features and advancements going on there, NVIDIA is still maintaining the current 190.xx stable driver series...

Axle GeForce GT 240 512 MB | Posted on: 11/12/2009 @ 19:40

NVIDIA recently launched their first GDDR5 graphics cards. The new GeForce GT 240 is based on NVIDIA's brand-new 40 nm G215 graphics processor and features 96 shaders. Axle has chosen to use an Arctic Cooling heatsink on their GT 240 design.

NVIDIA Anti-Aliasing, Linux & Lenvik | Posted on: 11/12/2009 @ 6:10

Recently via email we were asked to run a comparison of the different anti-aliasing and image rendering options between the ATI/AMD and NVIDIA Linux drivers and hardware. Well, we have now run a few quantitative and qualitative tests at different anti-aliasing levels under Linux. For those that want to run the tests themselves with their own drivers and hardware, we also have provided ...

GIGABYTE Radeon HD 5750 1GB Video Card | Posted on: 11/12/2009 @ 3:20

ASUS ATI Radeon EAH5970 HTDI | Posted on: 10/12/2009 @ 11:50

Mit dem Launch der ATI Radeon EAH5970 HTDI verfügt ASUS über ein neues Flaggschiff, wobei es sich um eine Dual-Chip-Lösung auf Basis zweier RV870 GPUs handelt. Stolze 1220 Gramm bringt das 31cm lange Monster auf die Waage und ist somit nocheinmal drei Zentimeter länger als die EAH5870. Die ASUS ATI Radeon EAH5970 HTDI unterstützt die selben Features wie die 5800 Serie, z.B. DirectX ...

ASUS GeForce GT240 GDDR5 Video Card ENGT240 | Posted on: 09/12/2009 @ 5:27

As enthusiasts, we\'re always interested in the latest monster video cards: the expensive, high-end products that blast through benchmarks and play all your games with buttery-smooth frame rates at the highest resolutions with all the settings maxed out- and sucking a not inconsiderable amount of electricity while doing so! But these products represent only a tiny fraction of the number of video ...

Axle GeForce GT 220 1 GB | Posted on: 08/12/2009 @ 13:20

While Axle is not the most well-known graphics card manufacturer, their GeForce GT 220 can score. It comes with a silent Arctic Cooling heatsink making it the quietest GT 220 we tested so far - great for HTPCs. It also offers low temperature levels which means overclocking is easy to do. We saw an 31% overclock on the GPU core clock and 18% on the memory.

HIS Radeon HD 5850 1GB | Posted on: 08/12/2009 @ 8:58

While we\'ve afforded plenty of time and coverage to AMD\'s Radeon HD 5870 graphics board of late (and indeed the Radeon HD 5970 more recently), there\'s one part of the company\'s DirectX 11 graphics board line-up that we\'ve neglected almost entirely thus far - Today we redress that imbalance by taking a look at HIS\' Radeon HD 5850 part, to see how it fits into the company\'s high-end GPU ...

SAPPHIRE Vapor-X HD5750 @ InsideHW | Posted on: 07/12/2009 @ 14:15

This time, in our test lab arrived Sapphire HD 5750 graphics card with custom cooling system already seen on several Vapor-X models. This cooling system is based on Vapor Chamber Technology that, basically, functions similar to heat pipe cooling systems. It consists of one “large” chamber with coolant liquid that evaporates when heated by, in this case, GPU, which is in direct contact ...

Giada Slim-N10 NVIDIA Ion Nettop - Extremely Small and Stylish | Posted on: 07/12/2009 @ 11:40

ASUS GeForce GTX 285 Matrix | Posted on: 07/12/2009 @ 6:00

The ASUS GTX 285 Matrixis part of the Republic of Gamers lineup, and it brings a few ASUS-specific features to the table. Like to overclock? Want to adjust voltages without voiding your warranty? Want the fastest single-GPU Nvidia card on the market? Then you\\\'re in for a treat today. But you know the question on your mind is, \\\"How close does it come to their Radeon 5870?\\\" We figured that ...

ATI HD 5770 | Posted on: 03/12/2009 @ 20:40

ATI recently jumped ahead of their closest rivals nVidia by releasing their latest generation of GPUs upon the market, just before the launch of Windows 7 in an attempt to cash in on the early adopters of Direct X 11. However, like always the first run of cards made available were mind blowingly expensive, so what\'s a mid-ranger looking for an upgrade to do? Fortunately it wasn\'t long before ...

NVIDIA 64-bit FreeBSD Graphics Driver Found | Posted on: 03/12/2009 @ 15:20

A week ago NVIDIA released the NVIDIA 195.22 Linux driver, but early this morning NVIDIA's Unix graphics team pushed out the FreeBSD 195.22 driver. This FreeBSD driver update basically brings it up to speed with the latest beta Linux driver with the VDPAU improvements, DisplayPort fixes, and other new support in this binary driver...

EVGA GeForce GT 240 SuperClocked Video Card Review | Posted on: 03/12/2009 @ 14:11

The EVGA GeForce GT 240 SuperClocked graphics card features overclocked GDDR5 memory, with twice the bandwidth of GDDR3 for blazing fast performance at a mainstream price point. With a native HDMI port on-board, the GT 240 offers the flexibility to connect both audio and video, via one cable, to any HDMI enabled monitor. Is this card right for you? Read on to find out!

Sapphire Radeon HD 5750 Vapor-X Video Card Review | Posted on: 03/12/2009 @ 14:10

The Sapphire Radeon HD 5750 Vapor-X, with the configuration of 720 stream processors and 1GB of GDDR5 memory offers users access to the same new generation technology, and full DirectX 11 support found on the more expensive models at a lower price point. The Vapor-X model is also factory overclocked and uses a better cooling solution than the reference design. Read on to see what this budget ...

GIGABYTE Radeon HD 5970 2GB Video Card | Posted on: 03/12/2009 @ 9:40

Radeon DRM Driver Gets New Branches | Posted on: 02/12/2009 @ 18:10

David Airlie, the Linux kernel DRM maintainer and the Red Hat employee responsible for a good portion of the open-source ATI Linux driver work, has announced changes in how he will be handling his DRM kernel branches and the addition of some new branches for ATI customers wishing to experiment with the latest Radeon driver code. Under this new plan David will be controlling the drm-core-next, ...

DiRT2 DirectX 11 ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series Comparison | Posted on: 02/12/2009 @ 2:00