It is time to present the first 890FX motherboard that entered the Shrimps lab. And boy does it look stunning, ladies and gentlemen let me introduce you: The Asus Crosshair IV Formula. The previous Crosshair III was a master in...
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One month on since the release of AMD’s flagship chipset and Hex Core processors, it’s quite clear that today’s performance users are gifted with a substantial choice of hardware to form the basis of their new machines. Despite the fact...
Read More...With the release of the new 6-core Thuban processors, AMD unveiled their latest chipset to go with it; the 890FX/GX. Very similar to the 790FX chipset, the 890GX is the first ever to support native SATA III 6Gb/s. In this...
Read More...In what might be a record, AMD managed to release both the first and final normal model from its HD 5000-series in a mere five months. The final card is of course the HD 5830, which falls comfortably between the...
Read More...AMD’s Radeon HD 5850 may not be the company’s highest-end card, but it still packs a wicked punch. Plus, when overclocked, and overclocked well, it can come close to the peformance of the top-end HD 5870. With the design of...
Read More...Intel’s Lynnfield based Core i5 and Core i7 processors are implemented on quite an interesting platform. Although AMD has usedintegrated memory controllers on their processors for years, it wasn’t untilrecently that Intel started implementing such controllers to replace theirlegacy Front...
Read More...It’s that time again for the ATI Catalyst™ driver update! We have been getting great comments and feedback from the community because of this blog site. Please continue to send us your feedback as we do review them all*. *IF...
Read More...In 2009 Intel seemed to be on a serious roll, almost unstoppable as they answered every one of AMD’s offerings. Even when AMD dropped their prices to create a better price/performance option, Intel simply launched the 1156 Lynnfield. Even the...
Read More...Nvidia is expected to delay its next-generation DirectX 11-supporting GPU (Fermi) to March, 2010, while AMD will launch more GPUs in January-February, according to sources from graphics card makers. Link
Read More...Hotfix that resolves the mouse being enlarged under Windows® 7, improves performance of OpenGL games, Provides CrossFireX™ support for Eyefinity & Provides support for OpenCL. Link
Read More...Catalyst 9.12 drivers available now, but you may want to have a look at the hotfix too! Link
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It’s that time again! New, very expensive hardware has arrived in the bit-tech/CustomPC labs and Richard gets to break it take it apart to see what’s inside. Like a seven year old with a screwdriver and an overzealous engineering gene...
Read More...For AMD users that are fortunate to have a Black Edition processor, you know the benefits in terms of overclocking ease, being able to simply raise the multiplier to hit higher performance results, along with other tweaking options to fine-tune...
Read More...It seems probable that September 2009 will be more than just a footnote in the annals of computing, especially when one considers graphics processors. AMD made the ninth month of the ninth year in the twenty-first century the one it...
Read More...Anybody who claims “the French are lazy” hasn’t seen their latest master piece. hardware.fr tested 131 CPUs from both Intel/AMD Camp, with 14 benchmarks. Sure the text is still in the language of love but the charts are international. Link
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