march 31 2010
hothardware reviewed the Samsung R580
This notebook was compared to the Dell Studio XPS 16 (Core 2 Duo P8600) and the Lenovo Thinkpad T410 (Core i5-540M) in the gaming and 3Dmark 2006 CPU benchmarks, both competitors score higher in 3Dmark06 because of a better processor, in 'real gaming' with Half-Life 2 Episode 2 and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars the R580 takes the lead.
The PC mark vantage bench was a comparison between the Dell Studio XPS 16, ASUS G51GX, G51J-A1 and the UL80Vt. The reviewers concluded that the R580 was a real number cruncher, multimedia and gaming ....More
march 30 2010
ProClockers reviewed the Gigabyte GV-R577UD-1GD
This graphics card was not compared to another card in the benchmarks. In the power consumption section it was compared to the Sapphire
HD5750.
Conclusion: This card has the same features as the HD 5850 and 5870, like DirectX 11 and Eyefinity (a 'single screen' multiple monitor
solution), the performance is of course not as high as the 58xx series but nevertheless it's good and the cooler is better than the
'reference cooler'. In other words an great card for a great price and a great overclocker. The editor gave it ....More
march 29 2010
overclockersclub reviewed the Samsung N130
This netbook was compared to the Samsung Q310-34P laptop and the HP Mini 311.
In the Cinebench as well as in the Big Number Crunch benchmark the atom N270 was the slowest CPU,
in the HDtune benchmark you'll have to keep in mind that the HP Mini 311 has a Mushkin Io series SSD drive.
Conclusion: This netbook is powerful enough for daily use.
There were issues with the flash video playback from the internet, because Adobe Flash is, unlike Ion Graphics, ....More
march 27 2010
legitreviews reviewed the Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic 1GB
Sapphire has has placed a custom designed three heat-pipe heatsink (which is rather quiet) with an 11 blade cooling fan on the GPU core,
that makes 'factory overclocking' possible. Because of the DisplayPort you can run ATI's Eyefinity, a multiple monitor 'experience', a
power supply of 600 Watts is recommended by the manufacturer.
Overclocing: You'll have to keep in mind that the Sapphire 5850 has allready been OCed to 765MHz(GPU) and 1125MHz(memory), so the
headroom is probaly limited.The reviewers tried to further overclock it with two (free) tools, the AMD GPU Clock tool and MSI
AfterBurner. After using these tools ....More
march 26 2010
tbreak reviewed the Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 15
This notebook has a Core i5 M430 processor clocked @ 2.27GHz, 4GB DDR3 RAM, a 320GB HDD and a discrete ATI Radeon 4500 video card with 512MB DDR3 memory.
The resolution of the 15.6 inch display with a widescreen formfactor of 16:9 is 1366x768, which can be considered a bit 'low', above the screen you'll find a webcam.....More
march 25 2010
pcstats reviewed the ASUS EAH5770 CUCore/2DI/1GD5
The ASUS EAH5770 CuCore/2DI/1GD5/A graphics card has about the same performance as the Radeon HD 4870 video card, since the GPU core die is manufactured @ 40nm this video card's power consumption is a lot less.
Conclusion:
The Radeon HD5770 Graphics card doesn't bring huge increases in performance to the market if you look at the same price tag, when compared to older DirectX 10 cards in the same price range, the performance results are about the same, the big plus is of course DirectX11.
DX 11 game titles like Stalker: Call of Pripyat and Dirt II are allready on the market and the number of DirectX11 games will probably grow fast. Hardware tesselation for more details in games, will be a 'hot item' in upcoming games
titles. ....More
march 24 2010
hardwareheaven reviewed the Novatech X1 CA
The X1 CA is a high-end gaming notebook with a 220w power supply, NVIDIA 285M GTX GPU, Core i7-720QM or i7-920XM mobile
CPU, 2x 2GB of Qimonda DDR3-1066 RAM, that is going to compete with the ASUS and Alienware notebook gaming linups.
Conclusion:
Allthough this noteboke has the lowest X1 CA specifications it performed very well. With a dual GTX 285M in SLi mode, SSD
RAID and a Core i7-920XM, the Performance would probably go through the roof. Since it is not very portable it can be seen
as a replacement for a desktop computer.....More
march 23 2010
tweaknews reviewed the HIS HD 5670 IceQ
Compared in the benchmarks to:
- Sapphire: HD 4770, HD5570, Vapor-X HD4850, HD4850 X2
- HIS: HD5750, HD5770, HD4850 & HD4890 iCooler, HD4870 IcQ4+.
- XFX: HD4770, HD5770, Black Edition 9800GTX+.
Conclusion:
A cheap and capable card, perhaps not a race monster, but compared to the HD 5750 it will be about 50% cheaper, the stock
cooling solution is great allthough it cannot compete to more expensive models. It's cheap, performs accordingly overclocks OK and
the build quality is very good.....More
march 19 2010
anandtech reviewed the ASUS Eee PC 1001P
This netbook was compared to the Acer 1810T, Geteway EC5409u, Dell Inspiron 11z, ASUS 1201N & 1005PE and
the HP mini 311 in the benchmarks.
Conclusion:
This is a well built and good looking netbook with a very good non-reflective display LCD display, the
battery life is OK, and still remains a netbook, which means small, light but very slow. Allthough it got
the 'Editiors choice' his final thoughts were: If your want a low price, small size and a long battery
life and a slow performance, this netbook will do OK, but ....More
march 19 2010
hardwarecanucks reviewed the XFX Radeon HD 5830
The XFX 5830 a has a special cooling solution but this card is not overclocked and still has the 'official' stock speed. With this card you'll get a Lifetime Warranty that means that even if you sell this card, the buyer will have the
same rights.
The price tag is set in between the HD5850 and the HD5770, the HD4890 1GB will be taken off the market and the new 5830 can be seen as its replacement. This video card uses the Cypress core, you'll find the same chip as the HD5850 and
HD5870, cores that are did not pass the tests for the higher segment in the 5800 series ....More
march 18 2010
bjorn3d reviewed the G.SKILL PC3 16000 2000MHz F3-16000CL6D-4GBPIS
Memory manufacturers release memory kits specifically engineered for i5/i7 CPUs, but a lot of overclockers care more about performance than compatibility.
With 6-9-6-24 2N timings and a frequency of 2000MHz this kit looks very promising. The avg price in march 2010 was round an about US$200.-. This kit was compared to the
Kingston ....More
march 18 2010
tweaktown reviewed the HIS Radeon HD 5770
This graphics card was compared to the ATI Radeon HD5830 1GB and the HIS Radeon HD 5750 1GB iCooler IV.
Conclusion:
The HIS cooler is quieter and keeps the GPU cooler, this video card has a great performance is really great and its ....More
march 17 2010
overclock3d reviewed the XFX Radeon HD 5670
With its length of just 17cm this card is ready for a Mini ITX form factor Home Theatre PC. The rear panel shows three connectors DVI, HDMI and Displayport. There's no DVI-to-VGA adapter in the bundle. The new Displayport interface is able to show your desktop/games on multiple displays using ATI's Multi-Monitor Technology Eyefinity, there's no Active Displayport Adapter in the bundle for people that want to use EyeFinity. The review has a dedicated page ....More
march 16 2010
pureoverclock reviewed the Sapphire HD5830 1GB GDDR5
The Radeon 5830 has the same size as the Radeon 5870, it is not a small card, allthough you would expect this because of the lower
performance than the 5870. Compared to the cheap Radeon 5670, the Sapphire Radeon 5830 is a giant. The Radeon 5830 also requires two
PCI-E power connectors, while the 5670 does not. The Radeon 5830 uses Samsung GDDR5 memory @2000MHz which is....More
march 15 2010
overclockersonline reviewed the Axle Geforce G210 512MB GDDR3 64bit
The Axle GeForce G210 video card is a basic video card based on the NVIDIA G210 chipset and runs @790MHz. In the benchmarks this card was compared with the PNY GeForce 8600
GTS.
The Axle G210 couldn't be pushed very much as can be expected from a lower-end card. The overclocked core reached 640 MHz whichn is round and about 10% more than....More
march 15 2010
reviewed the PowerColor Go! Green HD5750 1GB GDDR5
AMD Radeon HD 5000 cards have lower power consumption nowadays and better a performance per Watt than older video graphics cards, especially idle power consumption is important here because a decktop computer could be running all day, this card does not use active cooling and does not have an extra PCI-Express power connector, so it can draw only 75 watts. The case ....More
march 12 2010
motherboards.org reviewed the XFX Radeon HD 5830
The XFX HD 5830 was compared to the XFX radeon 5850, the MSI R5770 HAWK and the XFX radeon 5670.
These tests were done on an Intel X58SO mobo with 3GB Kingston DDR3-1600MHz @ 1333MHz, unfortunatley the processor was not mentioned.
Conclusion: The HD 5830 performs in between a HD 5770 and a HD 5850 card, as was allready indicated by its price. As mentioned above it supports DirectX 11 features which keeps it ahead of NVIDIA products ....More
march 11 2010
futurelooks reviewed the Intel Core i7 980X
The i7 980X memory controller is Triple Channel and it makes sure there is ample memory bandwidth readily available....More
march 11 2010
guru3d reviewed the Intel Core i7 980X
The Core i7 980X is grand and majestic in Content creation, in video transcoding, 3D CPU rendering and object
design with software like Maxon's Cinema 4D, ....More
march 9 2010
overclockersclub reviewed the PowerColor Radeon HD 5870 PCS+
The PowerColor HD 5870 PCS+ is an overclocked 5870 Cypress GPU core with 1600 stream processors and 1 GigaByte of GDDR5 memory @ 1225 MHz, The core runs at 875 MHz. The core is cooled by a heatsink with four pipes, while the memory ....More
march 8 2010
ASUS launches the ASUS G73Jh Laptop
A notebook based on the Mobile Intel HM55 Express Chipset, that was designed for diehard gamers, the design was inpired by a nighthawk stealth bomber. There are few notebooks that can be....More
march 6 2010
tweaktown reviewed the Kingston HyperX PC3-17066
The HyperX PC3-17066 was compared to the A-SATA X-Series PC3-6000, G.Skill Ripjaws PC3 16000, TEAM Group Xtreem PC3-12800, the last three modules were tested ....More
