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GeForce GTX 660 Ti Review: Nvidia’s Trickle-Down Keplernomics
“More than four months have passed since Nvidia’s Kepler architecture was introduced in GeForce GTX 680 (check out GeForce GTX 680 2 GB Review: Kepler Sends Tahiti On Vacation for more information on the design itself). In the five months since, we’ve seen Nvidia fill up the high-end space with its GeForce GTX 670 and [...].“
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ASUS GeForce 9800 GX2 review
“By now we can safely say that 400 million dollars later, the G80 architecture was good to Nvidia. First released in November 2006 in the form of the still quite capable GeForce 8800 GTX, this then new graphics architecture set an industry benchmark that was not met by ATI until very recently. The biggest problem [...].“
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ASUS P8Z77-V Premium Review: A Bentley Among Motherboards
“For a motherboard that has all this functionality, it is a small victory that ASUS have managed to fit it all into a normal ATX sized motherboard rather than the E-ATX form factor. Our first focus is the socket area, which has on two sides a very substantial pair of heatsinks covering the power delivery. [...].“
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T And 890FX Platform Review
At $1,000, it’s simply not possible to use the word value when talking about Intel’s Core i7-980X. Yes, it’s nice that the company is serving up an extra two cores at the same premium price point. And yes, we’re glad to see Intel extending the life of its LGA 1366 interface. But currently, your options [...]
Read MoreIntel Pentium G620 Sandy Bridge 2.6GHz CPU Review
Did you know that on May 22, 2011 that Intel released the companies first Pentium processors that utilize the Intel 32nm Sandy Bridge architecture? The Intel Pentium processor family is comprised of three new SKUs, called the G620, G840 and G850. The Pentium G620, G840 and G850 CPUs run at 2.6GHz, 2.8GHz and 2.9GHz with [...]
Read MoreSapphire Radeon HD 7970 TOXIC 6GB
AMD is hitting back at NVIDIA in the high-end graphics-card stakes. The green team, NVIDIA, stole a march with the release of the GeForce GTX 680 in March and then followed it up, surprisingly so, with the dual-GPU GTX 690 in May. AMD has since cleaved Radeon HD 7970 pricing down to £320 and also [...]
Intel Z77 Motherboard Review with Ivy Bridge
So we have survived one of the biggest days of the year for all things computer performance related – the release of Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processor. It replaces Sandy Bridge in the landscape of all things processor related, with Ivy Bridge boasting better single threaded performance at lower power usage when at stock speeds. [...]
Gigabyte GA-Z77MX-D3H Review – Z77 and MicroATX
n the first of our non-full-size Z77 motherboard reviews, we are today getting to grips with the Gigabyte GA-Z77MX-D3H. Currently retailing at $135, the Z77MX-D3H offers more performance in the microATX factor than some motherboards do in full-fat ATX mode. This motherboard took high-powered memory in its stride, and on the latest F10 BIOS (at [...]
ASUS P8Z77-V Premium Review: A Bentley Among Motherboards
For a motherboard that has all this functionality, it is a small victory that ASUS have managed to fit it all into a normal ATX sized motherboard rather than the E-ATX form factor. Our first focus is the socket area, which has on two sides a very substantial pair of heatsinks covering the power delivery. [...]
