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ATi Radeon HD 4870 X2
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Inside HW review the ATi Radeon HD 4870 X2, and were greatly impressed by its performance in gaming benchmarks:
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Launch of nVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 280 brought a huge enthusiasm in last two months, but it already begun to fade. The main “culprit” is ATi which showed to all of us that even when hard times come they are continuing with good work as if competition isn't a problem and as confirmation of their efforts we got incredible new generation of graphics cards. The whole story started with great Radeon HD 4850 and continued with HD 4870 that had GDDR5 memory. After great critics for these two GPUs, ATi was aware that they shouldn’t stop there, if they want to overthrown nVIDIA from the top performance throne. And they did it…
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Foxconn GeForce 9500 GT G96
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Benchmark Reviews take a look at the Foxconn GeForce 9500 GT G96 Video Card, an entry level gaming card the budget users may find interesting:
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Just because the GeForce 9500 GT series isn't a top SKU, doesn't mean that it doesn't offer big performance. It may not come as a surprise that Foxconn's 9500 GT isn't going to compete with the 9800 GT, but it remains to be seen if this is a close match to the 9600 GT. NVIDIA's G96 GPU has already proven itself a worthy is many other SKU's across their product line. The GeForce 9500 GT we received from Foxconn was produced with a 65 nm fabrication process, but TSMC expects to begin producing 55 nm parts some time later this year. Unlike the GeForce 9600 series that receives the full 256-bit memory pipeline, the 9500 series will only offer a 128-bit variant. Our Foxconn Standard OC Edition video card came equipped with 256 MB of GDDR3 video DRAM, which can offer enough frame buffer for most low- and mid-level video games.
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Cooler Master Passive Hyper Z600 CPU Cooler
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Xtreme Computing take a look at the Cooler Master Passive Hyper Z600 CPU Cooler, which weighs in at over 1kg!:
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Going in to this review I wasn’t sure what to expect. I had a preconception that passive coolers just don’t work very well and can’t beat coolers with fans. I braced myself for the worst, but Cooler Master’s Hyper Z600 CPU cooler was able to change my preconceptions and perform remarkably well under ‘passive’ conditions. With its huge size it has plenty of surface area for cooling, and just a small amount of airflow from case fans (and a PSU) are enough to keep it running pretty damn cool.
The Z600’s performance when a fan is attached is even better, but the Z600 doesn’t come with one so it is additional cost after buying the cooler. With enough space in your case you can set up two fans on the Z600 in a push/pull config for even better temperatures. The Hyper Z600 can currently be found for just under £35 in the UK, and is quite a good price for the amount of cooler you get.
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Mtron Pro 7500 32GB SATA-II SSD
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Benchmark Reviews have a fascinating review of the Mtron Pro 7500 32GB SATA-II Solid State Drive:
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Solid State Drives have become a subject of keen familiarity for me over the past year. After testing more than a dozen SSDs, I have watched the industry opinion of these cutting-edge products sway from luxury item to performance hardware necessity. While it cannot be denied that SSDs are still a pricey gadget best suited for the affluent enthusiast, there have been so many new developments that now cost is sharply on the decline while performance is continually rising. With prices being much more affordable, and performance having surpassed the best HDD products long ago, it all boils down to a good price-to-performance ratio. In this article Benchmark Reviews tests the premium MSP-SATA7525 SATA-II SSD from Mtron, a company that has become the grandfather of Solid State Drives.
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Patriot Viper PC3-16000 2GB Memory Kit
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Hardware Logic review the Patriot Viper PC3-16000 2GB Memory Kit, running at a stock speed of 2000Mhz!
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Patriot tries to make the choice very clear with one of the fastest memory kits currently on the market. Specially designed for the high end 790i chipset, the Viper PC3-16000 kit sizzles at a stock speed of DDR3-2000. You read that right, 2000MHz! It also weighs in at 2GB (2x1GB) with timings of 9-9-9-24. Sporting an nVidia inspired bright green paint job, there is no mistaking these sticks among the sea of RAM choices available. If you are looking for a memory kit that can help push your system to its limit, you'll definitely want to keep reading as HardwareLogic throws these Vipers on the test bench to see what life at 2000MHz is really like.
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NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ Graphics Card
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Tech ARP have a review of the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ Graphics Card, that yields a slight improvement in performance over the non "+" model:
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We first covered the launch of the new NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ on June 20, 2008. Launched right after the GT 200 series of graphics cards, the GeForce 9800 GTX+ is die-shrinked version of the venerable NVIDIA G92 GPU, used in cards like the GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB and the GeForce 8800 GT. Thanks to the die-shrink from 65 nm to 55 nm, NVIDIA was able to further boost the core and shader clock speeds of the GPU by 9.3%. Everything else was unchanged, including the memory clock which remained at 1.1 GHz. Hence, NVIDIA called it the GeForce 9800 GTX+ (Plus), instead of the GeForce 9900 GTX.
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EVGA GTX 280 Superclocked
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Bit tech review the EVGA GTX 280 Superclocked graphics card, but aren't impressed by the premium you need to pay for it:
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As it stands though, the EVGA GeForce GTX 280 Superclocked, while offering a superb warranty and Step-up program, is going to struggle in the already congested market. EVGA can want its brand to carry a premium but at the end of the day the overclock on the card is minor and only translates to a one or two frames per second advantage over a stock card, compared to the four or five frame per second advantage of the higher overclocked cards, which can now be had for less money than EVGA are asking for the superclocked. It’s very hard to justify the price of the EVGA.
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NVIDIA GPU PhysX Pack Preview
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Hot Hardware have some information on the NVIDIA GPU PhysX Pack, essentially using the GPU to perform some physics calculations (rather than the CPU):
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Physics: as geeks, we just have to love the subject. We loved learning about geniuses like Isaac Newton and concepts like gravity, acceleration and inertia. Also, typical of geeks, we love gaming. So, combining physics acceleration and gaming just sounds like a really cool idea. For the past several years, we've been learning more and more about physics in gaming in the form of PhysX, a technology created by a company called Ageia. The original approach to PhysX by Ageia was a dedicated PhysX card that sported a PPU (physics processing unit). Ageia partnered with companies like BFG and ASUS to bring the PhysX cards to market. We actually reviewed the BFG version here in the HotHardware labs over two years ago. The entire real-time, in-game physics landscape has changed quite a bit since that time, however. With NVIDIA's relatively recent acquisition of Ageia, we all knew it was only a matter of time before we'd see some kind of announcement or launch detailing what NVIDIA's plans were with the PhysX technology...
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