Introduction In the midst of all the rebranding and fine-tuning, NVIDIA managed to make again, the most powerful single-GPU video card. Well, they also made the most powerful dual-GPU video card but that’s not what I’m reviewing, is it. I’m reviewing the GTX 285, the die-shrunk, power-boosted bastard of the GTX 280. It’s really, really … Read this review…
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Introduction Sometimes a video card needs to be just that. A card for video. Many high-end workstation motherboards don’t have integrated video, but what good is a computer without a display? The Intel i7 is just the perfect example. A lot of people have the need for quad cores of number-crunching power, but they’re not … Read this review…
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Introduction I was a little noncommittal in recommending the 4670 and I suspect that I’m pretty much in the same boat with regards to the 4650. On the one hand, these are inexpensive cards with impressive performance for the price, but on the other hand, for very little extra, much more capable cards can be … Read this review…
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Introduction Alright. Time for a refresh, it’s almost spring, and that’s the season for growing video cards. The HD 4890 is, for all intensive porpoises, a retooled HD 4870, which, in my humble opinion, is overdue. Not that the 4870 was by any means a bad card, and it certainly got its deserved amount of … Read this review…
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Introduction The 5770 is a drop-in replacement for the 4870. It has the same basic amount of GPU processing power, albeit on a smaller process with much better power management. So the improvements are all elsewhere–DirectX 11 being the most prominent, but you gotta highlight the rest: Eyefinity multi-monitor support, 1GB RAM stock, HDMI 1.3a … Read this review…
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Introduction DirectX 11 is the DirectX 10 that never was. It’s coming out with a version of Windows that people are eager for, there are games available and games upcoming that support it, and ATI has the hardware and NVIDIA’s got rumors about theirs being a day late and a dollar short. And there’s more … Read this review…
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