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HIS HD 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo 1GB @ Bjorn3D
“Late in 2008, AMD released an updated version of the HD4870, with 1 GB instead of 512 MB. Today, we are testing the HIS HD 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo 1GB to see what benefits we get from the increased memory size. Is it worth the extra dollars or will a 512 MB card still be enough?”
Sapphire HD 4670 Ultimate Edition @ OC Club
“The heatsink used on the Ultimate Edition HD 4670 is a passive design. This means that its sole means of discharging the thermal load, is to rely on the temperature differential between the air in the chassis and the heatsink itself. Of course better case airflow will allow the heatsink to be more effective. Sapphire has come up with creative solutions for cooling ATI based video cards over the past year with the Toxic and Atomic series of video cards.”
Sapphire Radeon 4670 @ OCModShop
“And then, along comes ATI. Or is it AMD? No, it’s still ATI, I guess. Anyway. Along they come and attempt to save us penny pinchers a few bucks. And you know what? Every now and then they create a card that just possibly could do the job without the distinct sound of a snicker coming from under the heatsink.”
Gigabyte 512M 9800GT @ TechwareLabs
“Following up on our budget friendly reviews of hardware worth your hard earned cash we take a look at the video card segment. Looking to upgrade your graphics prowess but you don’t want to break the bank? Today, Jason D takes a look at the most economical performance upgrade, the 9800 GT.”
OCZ 6GB Triple-Channel 1333 MHz DDR3 @ Benchmark Reviews
“System memory is one of the most over-looked hardware components in computer systems, and with applications demanding greater memory overhead it is best to use as much memory as allowed. But not all memory is made the same; and even memory of the same speed can have different consumer targets. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the performance of an entry-level triple-channel product for the Intel Core i7 platform.”
Crucial PC3 10600 3x2GB Kit @ OC Club
“As delivered from Crucial, the latencies on this set of modules are 9-9-9 at 1333MHz. This, of course, they will do at 1.5 volts. Surprisingly, they do 7-7-7-20 at 1333MHz at 1.58 volts as well. Running at 7-7-7 was nice at the bottom end but the modules didn’t get too much further without big volts until the CAS latency was increased to 8.”
AMD Phenom II X3 720/X4 810/X4 920 @ Digit-Life
“We can conclude that Phenom II processors demonstrate more attractive performance than their direct competitors from the Core 2 series. For example, the 810 processor looks much better than Q8200 and Q6600 that has a much larger cache.”
Sapphire 780G @ Bjoprn3D
“In fact with onboard graphics, that will take some load away from the CPU thus making your video run smoother, would be perfect for an HTPC. This also happens to be AMD’s newest socket, AM2. This socket includes a wide range of CPU’s from single core CPU’s, all the way up to quad cores.”
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 & GA-EX58-Extreme @ X-Bit Labs
“Our today’s article continues a series of reviews of the new platforms: we are going to talk about two new mainboards from Gigabyte: GA-EX58-UD5 and GA-EX58-Extreme. It makes perfect sense to combine these two mainboards within a single article because they have a lot of common traits and very few insignificant differences. This way we can avoid repeating the same things about them and at the same time focus on the distinguishing features of each of them. One of the most noticeable differences between them is their packaging.”
Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 @ TBreak
“The order of the day is all about a feature packed motherboard from Gigabyte based on the Intel P45 chipset, the EP45-DQ6. It rounds up to being the perfect motherboard for all users thanks to having almost everything one would need.”