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Sapphire Radeon HD4770 512MB Graphics Card | Posted on: 29/05/2009 @ 15:10

In use the Sapphire Radeon HD4770 512MB graphics card performed admirably. It is not the ultimate gaming solution (and doesn't claim to be), but for about $100 it is definitely impressive. It can put up solid numbers in games with the settings turned up and it won't make your electric meter spin out of control in the process.

NVIDIA Releases 185.18.14 Display Driver | Posted on: 29/05/2009 @ 14:20

NVIDIA hasn't released as many Linux driver updates in May as they have in past months, but this week they are out with the NVIDIA 185.18.14 driver update. This proprietary driver for x86 and x86_64 Linux features a variety of bug-fixes, VDPAU enhancements, and better support for newer Linux kernels...

ASUS W90Vp: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870... with CrossFire | Posted on: 29/05/2009 @ 12:51

ASUS sent us their W90Vp-A1 monster notebook, the current pinnacle of mobile ATI graphics solutions. There's plenty to like in this desktop replacement system, as well as a few problem areas. Join us for testing of one of the largest notebooks we've ever encountered....

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4770 Videocard Review @ Tweaknews | Posted on: 29/05/2009 @ 8:25

The HD4770 at this time is the bargain of the lot and at an introductory US$99 price, two of these cards in a Crossfire setup would be a fast US$200 combo that would handle most games reasonably well even at higher resolutions.

Cyberlink MediaShow Espresso GPGPU Performance | Posted on: 29/05/2009 @ 2:00

By running applications on the GPU rather than entirely on the CPU, it has been found to reduce the time required to perform computer intensive tasks. Read on to see if either GeForce 9800 GTX+ or a Radeon HD 4770 is quicker for video conversion on Cyberlink's MediaShow Espresso application.

DIAMOND ATI Radeon HD 4870 PCIE 1024MB GDDR5 Video Card 4870PE51G | Posted on: 28/05/2009 @ 2:40

Videocards are something that have always kind of annoyed me, it seems they're always releasing a new one, technology that was hot a few months ago is now obsolete. Then again, that's the way it is with most technology so I'm not sure why it surprises me, but it, the upgrades, just seems to go much faster with video cards. Today for review I've got the Diamond ATI Radeon 4870 1gig video card. As ...

XFX ATI Radeon HD 4770 512MB | Posted on: 27/05/2009 @ 11:00

The Radeon HD 4770 might boast 40nm technology and an £80 price tag, but can it batter modern games into submission? We put XFX's HD 4770 to the test against some of its nearest rivals to see if it really is the mid range king it claims to be.

Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB Atomic | Posted on: 26/05/2009 @ 10:50

Sapphire has broken the 1GHz core barrier with its latest card, the Radeon HD 4890 Atomic. Does the monster overclock lead to some equally monster performance scores, or is this simply a PR barrier ATI is playing up to be bigger than it really is? We grab the testing gear and find out.

Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X 1GB | Posted on: 26/05/2009 @ 8:57

Another week, another factory overclocked Radeon HD 4890 graphics board - This time around our attention is firmly focused upon Sapphire\'s Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X, complete with custom vapour chamber cooling solution. What does it have to offer against the competition?

ASUS ROG ENGTX260 Matrix GeForce GTX 260 Video Card Review | Posted on: 26/05/2009 @ 7:00

Sapphire Radeon 4890 Vapor-X | Posted on: 25/05/2009 @ 6:20

Sapphire is a company known for taking stock ATI products and pimping them up in various ways, often with higher clock speeds, but more importantly, custom coolers to achieve those high speeds. Their innovative Vapor-X heatsink technology is particularly noteworthy, and they\'ve continued this trend with their latest release, the 4890 Vapor-X, which sports a good factory overclock and promises ...

ASUS ENGTX295 and ENGTX285 TOP | Posted on: 24/05/2009 @ 23:25

Few months ago we reviewed GeForce GTX285 and GTX 295. GTX 295 was fastest graphics card that you could find at that moment and GTX 285 was “strange” model that could get negative or positive criticism depending on what are you searching for. Since then, situation on the graphics card market has changed. GeForce GTX 285 got serious competitor in form of Radeon HD 4890 that ...

XFX Radeon HD 4890 XXX 1GB | Posted on: 21/05/2009 @ 20:28

With AMD\'s latest high-end Radeon HD 4890 SKU, and the RV790 architecture which powers it, now well and truly established on the market, today we take a look at another factory overclocked part utilising just this configuration. XFX\'s Radeon HD 4890 XXX promises a modest core clock speed boost to add to the equation, so how does it fare in gaming performance terms?

Inno3D GeForce GTX 275 OC Graphics Card | Posted on: 21/05/2009 @ 6:10

EVGA GeForce GTX 275 | Posted on: 21/05/2009 @ 5:50

EVGA\'s GTX 275 looks awfully similar to the other 200-series cards, but this one is a bit different under the hood, promising a bunch of horsepower for today\'s hottest games in what looks to be a rather unassuming exterior. We will test drive it today on a slew of games to see if can live up to the claims when the rubber hits the road.

Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 4770 512MB | Posted on: 19/05/2009 @ 12:10

After being impressed by the AMD's new ATI Radeon 4770 HD 512MB graphics card, we're taking a look at our first partner design from Gigabyte. At £88 it's more expensive than both the reference design and other models on the market, so we take a look at what we get for our extra few quid.

EVGA GeForce GTX 285 2GB FTW Edition | Posted on: 19/05/2009 @ 11:40

EVGA have been tinkering away at NVIDIA’s GTX 285 and have now come out with the end result. The GeForce GTX 285 2GB FTW Edition EVGA have managed to increase the GPU clock speed to 702MHz from the original 648MHz stock clock speed. The card’s shaders have also been given a boost from a stock speed of 1476MHz [...]

EVGA GeForce GTX 285 2GB FTW Edition | Posted on: 19/05/2009 @ 11:30

EVGA have been tinkering away at NVIDIA’s GTX 285 and have now come out with the end result. The GeForce GTX 285 2GB FTW Edition EVGA have managed to increase the GPU clock speed to 702MHz from the original 648MHz stock clock speed. The card’s shaders have also been given a boost from a stock speed of 1476MHz [...]

ASUS ENGTX260 Matrix GeForce GTX 260 Video Card | Posted on: 19/05/2009 @ 4:24

The breakneck pace of product development for graphics cards doesn\'t always generate bigger, faster, more powerful chips and cards. Sometimes a new product gets developed and introduced to the market that isn\'t a barn burner. Such is the case with this GTX260-based video card, the ASUS ENGTX260 Matrix. That doesn\'t mean it isn\'t a worthwhile product, or isn\'t worth the attention of ...

MSI N260GTX Lightning Black Edition Video Card Review | Posted on: 18/05/2009 @ 18:40

MSI N260GTX Lightning Black Edition is a factory-overclocked video card based on GeForce GTX 260/216 that comes with an overclocking panel to be installed on your case or desk.

ECS GeForce GTS 250 1GB Graphics Card | Posted on: 16/05/2009 @ 8:10

DisplayLink Provides USB GPU Support On Linux | Posted on: 15/05/2009 @ 23:30

Besides Intel, VIA, and ATI/AMD cooperating with X.Org and Linux developers by providing source code and documentation to help with the enablement of their hardware under Linux, another major company has come to the open-source table. No, sadly it is not NVIDIA...

Inno3D GeForce GTX 260 FreezerX2: the budget high-end card? | Posted on: 15/05/2009 @ 8:20

Coming in with an etail price of below £140, Inno3D's customised GeForce GTX 260 seems like a winner? Is it?

NVIDIA Releases 180.60 Linux Display Driver | Posted on: 14/05/2009 @ 3:20

It has been two or three weeks since we were last presented with a new display driver from NVIDIA for Linux, whether it be in their 180.xx or 185.xx series, a stable release, a beta release, or any of their legacy driver updates. This timespan is quite long compared to the past few months where they have released as many as five Linux drivers per month...

ATI RS690 Gets New RadeonHD HDMI Audio Patch | Posted on: 14/05/2009 @ 0:40

While the xf86-video-ati driver continues to churn along receiving new code and frequent releases, there has not been too much to report on with the xf86-video-radeonhd driver lately. There was the RadeonHD 1.2.5 release over a month ago, but not a lot of interesting commits can be found in the RadeonHD driver over the past few weeks and these Novell developers suffered in recent layoffs...

Flashrom To Support Flashing ATI Graphics Cards | Posted on: 13/05/2009 @ 13:10

We have learned that Flashrom, an open-source program for flashing the BIOSes on many different motherboards / chipsets, is soon going to be picking up support for flashing the video BIOS image on ATI graphics cards. Specifically, it should be possible to flash the BIOS of the ATI Radeon X1000 (R500) series and potentially the Radeon HD 2000/3000 (R600) series too...

NVIDIA Readies Its OpenCL Linux Driver | Posted on: 13/05/2009 @ 12:30

Andrew Humber, NVIDIA's senior PR manager for their Tesla and CUDA products, has passed along word that they have submitted OpenCL 1.0 supportive drivers to the Khronos Group for conformance certification. This initial OpenCL support will be on Linux and Windows, though there was no mention of OpenCL on Solaris/OpenSolaris or FreeBSD where they also maintain proprietary drivers. There are ...

ASUS EAH4870 MATRIX/HTDI/512MD5 | Posted on: 12/05/2009 @ 22:13

Matrix series of graphics cards from ASUS belongs to ROG (Republic of Gamers) product lineup that is also consisted of numerous motherboards. Although these graphics cards have elevated frequencies compared to reference models, this is not the only advantage of Matrix series of graphics cards. Besides great design they are equipped with marvelous cooling system and numerous optimizations that ...

Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 4770 512MB | Posted on: 12/05/2009 @ 9:20

After being impressed by the AMD's new ATI Radeon 4770 HD 512MB graphics card, we're taking a look at our first partner design from Gigabyte. At £88 it's more expensive than both the reference design and other models on the market, so we take a look at what we get for our extra few quid.

AMD Radeon HD 4770 On Linux | Posted on: 11/05/2009 @ 11:10

The latest addition to AMD's Radeon HD 4000 series (R700) family is the ATI Radeon HD 4770 graphics card, which was released in late April. We finally have our hands on this graphics card which uses the RV740 -- the first 40nm GPU -- and have proceeded to run our usual assortment of Linux-based tests. Along with the transition from a 55nm to 40nm process, the Radeon HD 4770 has been designed to ...

Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 ATOMIC: 1,000MHz core - how fast is it? | Posted on: 11/05/2009 @ 11:00

We spill the numbers on the fastest air-cooled Radeon HD 4890 this side of anywhere.

AMD/ATI Radeon HD 4770 On Linux | Posted on: 08/05/2009 @ 19:10

To those of you interested in AMD's new graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 4770, it does work with Linux. Right now you can run this first 40nm GPU using Catalyst 9.4, but you will see an "unsupported hardware" logo in the lower right hand corner...

Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 CrossFireX Performance | Posted on: 08/05/2009 @ 16:36

The Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 introduces the 40nm RV740 GPU paired to 512MB of DDR5 video frame buffer memory, and a double-height cooler allows the 100277L model video card to operate at 750MHz. As of May 2009, the Sapphire HD4770 sells for as low as $99, which allows gamers to create a very affordable CrossFireX array using this mainstream graphics accelerator. Benchmark Reviews compares two ...

ASUS vs. ASUS: GeForce GTX 260 MATRIX against Radeon HD 4890 Voltage Tweak | Posted on: 07/05/2009 @ 5:00

We pit two special-edition ASUS cards, costing roughly £200 each, and see if NVIDIA or ATI offers the best bang4buck.

Sapphire Vapor X 4850 | Posted on: 06/05/2009 @ 15:11

Sapphire first introduced its graphics cards which implemented the Vapor-X coolers back in 2007 with its 3870 Atomic cards. The Vapor-X technology meant that graphics cards could be efficiently cooled and still remain silent using a liquid coolant which vaporised at the hot GPU’s IHS. Recently Sapphire has revitalised their Vapor-X video cards with the birth of the HD 4850 and 4870. Today ...

Zotac GTX 285 Video Card | Posted on: 05/05/2009 @ 19:21

To replace the GTX 280, NVIDIA has released the GTX 285 – a graphics card which sports a 55nm GPU and the same 240 stream processors as the GTX 280. The GTX 285 that we’ll be reviewing today is made by Zotac – a quickly growing company who make some cracking graphics cards and motherboards. Anyway, let’s unleash this beast and see how it performs. Introducing the Zotac ...

ATI Radeon HD 4770 CrossFire Video Card Review | Posted on: 05/05/2009 @ 18:00

The ATI Radeon 4770 video card can be found today for $94.99 after rebate, which makes it a great value. If you bought a pair of these cards and ran them in CrossFire you'd be out ~$190, which isn't a bad price considering what you get and how well they overclock. Will a pair of Radeon HD 4770 video cards in CrossFire be enough to beat the Radeon HD 4890 OC and GeForce GTX 275? Read on to find ...

Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 512MB in CrossFireX: beating up on high-end GPUs? | Posted on: 05/05/2009 @ 10:20

We take two Radeon HD 4770s and see what kind of performance damage they can do to £150+ cards.

Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 512MB and CrossFire performance | Posted on: 05/05/2009 @ 9:23

After taking a look at HIS\' Radeon HD 4770 part at launch, today we examine Sapphire\'s own Radeon HD 4770 board. As it utilises the same clock speeds and cooling solution as the aforementioned card, we\'ve decided to spice things up by also examining CrossFire performance using a pair of Radeon HD 4770 cards, which adds up to a tantalising little sub-£200 solution which threatens to give the ...

ASUS Radeon EAH4870X2 Tri-Fan Graphics Card | Posted on: 05/05/2009 @ 9:20

Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 | Posted on: 04/05/2009 @ 15:11

AMD made a push to reach the 40nm GPU milestone, and they have accomplished that goal, fabricating a chip that should run cooler and draw less power than its predecessors. Sapphire is one of the companies at the forefront of the 40nm market, and we have one of their Radeon 4770 cards fresh off the production line. But the question remains: does it push great framerates? Let\'s find out.

ATI Radeon HD 4770 | Posted on: 03/05/2009 @ 22:27

When ATI/AMD presented new generation of graphics cards based on RV770 chip, first model was Radeon HD 4850. This model, despite few problems, became mega popular when it comes to HD 4XXX series of graphics cards that now consists out of so many models. Although it was first presented, Radeon HD 4850 was far from top-performance model. Nevertheless even today its sale rates are high because its ...

Inno3D GeForce GTX 275 Overclock: battling hard against ATI's HD 4890 | Posted on: 01/05/2009 @ 8:20

Generous overclocking provides a boost to Inno3D's card.