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MSI NGTX275 Lightning Review | Posted on: 31/08/2009 @ 13:20

MSI has applied its lightning technology to the GTX275. We've put it through its paces to see if it can add more pizazz to the equation than the MSI NGTX260 we looked at in July.

Galaxy Geforce GTS 250 512MB GDDR3 Graphic Card Review | Posted on: 30/08/2009 @ 17:10

Of the many GTS250 that I’ve come by so far, I must say that this one looks most appealing to me. Does this card perform as good as it looks? This review was made possible by Galaxy The Appearance The card, strikingly beautiful with it’s blue and black theme. The cooler appears to be made of aluminium, with [...]

*World Exclusive* Mushkin UltimateFX GeForce GTX 295 | Posted on: 29/08/2009 @ 14:56

*First Look* - This is a product from one of the godfathers of PC hardware manufacture. Mushkin are a legend in the high performance memory business. Here we have something that i hope will be rather special as they are entering the VGA market with a bang! Here we have the new single PCB \\\'UltimateFX GeForce GTX 295\\\'... one of the very fastest graphics cards on the market right now.

MSI GeForce GTX 260 Lightning Graphics Card | Posted on: 28/08/2009 @ 6:30

Galaxy GeForce GTS 250 1GB review | Posted on: 26/08/2009 @ 11:10

Galaxy is an Nvidia partner that's been cranking out graphics cards in the States for years. With a plan to move to the UK in the pipeline, we got in their GeForce GTS 250 1GB to take a look at the approaches the company takes to making its products stand out from the crowd.

MSI N260GTX Lightning Black Edition 1792MB GDDR3 Graphic Card Review | Posted on: 25/08/2009 @ 17:11

Never thought my first experience on a GTX260 would be on such a high spec version. This review was made possible by MSI Malaysia The Appearance A sleek looking black PCB card with brushed metal heatsink bezel and shiny heatpipes. Here’s a closer view of it. The card requires 2x PCI-E power connector for power feed. Notice also [...]

Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X 2GB review | Posted on: 25/08/2009 @ 11:20

WIth its custom Vapor-X cooling and 2GB of memory strapped to a blue PCB, does Sapphire's latest Radeon HD 4890 have the extra grunt and overclocking power to make us want to buy?

NVIDIA Pushes Out New Linux Driver Updates | Posted on: 24/08/2009 @ 16:40

NVIDIA hasn't been updating their binary Linux drivers as frequently as they were earlier this year when it would be hard to go even just a week without seeing a new beta, an official update, or changes to either of their legacy drivers. However, there are some new NVIDIA Linux drivers to start off this week...

HEXUS - World Exclusive! ASUS ROG MARS GeForce 4,096MB card. SLI numbers thrown in. | Posted on: 24/08/2009 @ 12:30

ASUS unleashes the god of war - ROG MARS - the most outlandish graphics-card around.

Zotac GTX285 AMP Edition | Posted on: 23/08/2009 @ 3:40

On paper, the Zotac GTX285 AMP Edition looks to offer blazing performance. Being touted as the fasted single GPU graphics card out there, we shall be putting it through it's paces within this review. Read more...

Review of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 512MB GDDR5 PCIe Graphics Card | Posted on: 21/08/2009 @ 15:11

Summary: AMD’s mid-range graphics cards are having great success. The AMD Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 is an example of this. It’s an excellent graphics card with a very inviting price. It’s been awhile since we’ve had the chance to take a look at a graphics card. So, we thought it was time now to end that [...]

Review of the Gigabyte GTX 285 2GB OC Graphics Card | Posted on: 21/08/2009 @ 15:10

Summary: One of the most powerful graphics cards on the market has come to our test bench. The results were excellent. We haven’t had the chance to review many video cards. So we really decided to buckle down on this one. INTRODUCTION The most recent card to reach us comes from Gigabyte. It’s one of today’s most powerful [...]

Preparing for P55: Motherboards, Memory and NVIDIA | Posted on: 20/08/2009 @ 21:20

We're less than a month away from the biggest deployment of Intel's Nehalem architecture ever. Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon, motherboard manufacturers, memory vendors and even NVIDIA. We sum up some of the details on P55 motherboards, share the plans of one memory vendor and look at what NVIDIA is offering with P55....

Zotac GTX285 AMP Edition | Posted on: 20/08/2009 @ 10:15

Choosing a new graphics card for your PC can often be a daunting and sometimes confusing affair. There are a lot of different models available to choose from, and this is made worse when you consider that there are different manufacturers offering their own versions of these models. When you are on the lookout for a high performance graphics card though, the available choices become more ...

Radeon Driver Picks Up VBOs, OQ Support | Posted on: 16/08/2009 @ 23:30

There are quite a number of changes in store for Mesa 7.6, such as new state trackers for Gallium3D, other Gallium3D-specific improvements, optimized IR, and many changes to the different Mesa 3D drivers. Adding to that list, the open-source ATI R300+ driver has just picked up support for Vertex Buffer Objects and Occlusion Queries. The vbo_clean branch was merged into Mesa over the weekend, ...

Galaxy Geforce 9600GT 512MB LowPower LowProfile Graphic Card Review | Posted on: 16/08/2009 @ 2:00

9600GT Again? I normally wouldn’t take on another 9600GT review as I’ve done that quite a few times over, however this one’s was a Low Power and Low Profile version - so I thought it to be pretty interesting. This review was made possible by Galaxy The Appearance The card comes in Galaxy’s signature blue PCB and [...]

AMD Previews DirectX 11 Gaming Performance on Evergreen | Posted on: 15/08/2009 @ 16:00

AMD invited Legit Reviews up to their private suite in the hotel that Quakecon 2009 is being hosted at for a first look at gaming on one of their upcoming DirectX 11 graphics cards. This graphics card has not been officially named yet, but it has the internal code name of 'Evergreen' and we managed to snap a picture of it.

MSI N275GTX Lightning GTX 275 1792 MB | Posted on: 14/08/2009 @ 23:40

MSI's latest addition to their Lightning Series is the N275GTX Lightning with 1792 MB memory and a new Twin Frozr II dual 80 mm fan cooler. Being targeted at overclockers it is overclocked out of the box of course. All this sounds like a noisy card? Nope, on the contrary, the card is actually the quietest card in its performance class, by far.

ATI Catalyst vs. NVIDIA ForceWare VGA Performance in Win 7 | Posted on: 14/08/2009 @ 13:50

Gainward Single PCB GTX 295 Review | Posted on: 10/08/2009 @ 12:10

Nvidia has redesigned the GeForce GTX 295, squeezing both GT200b GPUs onto a single PCB and completely replacing the card's cooler. We find out if the the GTX 295 directors cut is any faster or cooler than it's dual PCB predecessor, and whether it's more worthy of it's top end price tag.

Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 2GB Vapor-X Graphics Card | Posted on: 08/08/2009 @ 6:00

SilenX- 80mm GTX2xx/48xxHD GPU Heatsink IXG-80HA2) with additional (IXG-3F2) 3 Fan Kit Review | Posted on: 07/08/2009 @ 9:00

The GPU makers today are pumping out some incredible card. The new GPU’s come with a price and that price is ambient temperature some of these new cards are pushing the 80 degree mark and that not only frightens those worried about their new graphics card but also affects the overall temperature of the rest of your case as well. There are a lot of choices when it comes to properly cooling ...

Inno3D i-Chill GeForce GTS 250 with AC Twin Turbo Pro | Posted on: 06/08/2009 @ 11:20

XFX GeForce GTX 275 XXX 896MB | Posted on: 06/08/2009 @ 10:44

AMD`s Radeon HD 4890 has been getting plenty of press ever since its launch, but what of this board\'s direct rival from NVIDIA, the GeForce GTX 275? Today, we take a look at a factory overclocked board in the form of XFX`s GeForce GTX 275 XXX, to see how it compares to both a reference GeForce GTX 275 as well as the Radeon HD 4890.

Inno3D GeForce GTS 250 iChiLL FreezerX 1GB Graphics Card | Posted on: 05/08/2009 @ 12:30

NVIDIA Shows Linux Compatible Ray-Tracing Engine | Posted on: 04/08/2009 @ 19:30

Yesterday there was the major announcement of the OpenGL 3.2 release, but the news coming out of today from New Orleans during SIGGRAPH is OptiX, which comes from the folks at NVIDIA. OptiX is a ray-tracing engine developed by NVIDIA to run on Quadro FX graphics cards and uses their CUDA architecture...

Zotac GTX 285 | Posted on: 04/08/2009 @ 16:16

The cream of the crop graphics cards now tend to be dual core designs such as the GTX 295 or, if we are talking ATI, 4870x2s. However, single core cards are still very much in the scene and competing right at the top end of graphics card technology. Today we will be taking a look at a card from Zotac’s GTX 285 range – the Infinity Edition. This particular one features a GPU water ...

Compiz Running With Mesa On R600/700 GPUs | Posted on: 03/08/2009 @ 12:10

Just about three weeks ago the AMD developers working on the open-source ATI drivers had reached the milestone in their open-source 3D support for the R600/700 GPUs of having glxgears running on these two latest generations of ATI graphics processors. glxgears running itself isn't much, but it's an important step...