Asus HD4890 Voltage Tweak Edition Review

Asus has always been one of the driving forces in computing with their wide range of products. They’ve consistently pushed the boundaries of technological achievement and been the standard other vendors shoot for. The introduction of the Asus 4890 Voltage Tweak GPU is no exception to this rule. Using the Asus Smart Doctor software and just a click and drag of the mouse you can increase the core voltage of this already fast GPU. Usually voltage tweaks are relegated to pencil mods, or resorting to soldering or software tricks to increase the core voltage, just a hair, to give an enthusiast the advantage they need to pull off that sweet score they want.

The Asus 4890 Voltage Tweak allows you to increase the core voltage without having to resort to such primitive methods. Take a GPU that is already capable of a 950 Mhz speed (overclocked) without tweaking the voltage and add a little voltage to it and you could be looking at 1 GHz core speed bragging rights. That little advantage that enthusiasts look for without all the convolutions to get it. Asus is truly pushing the envelope with the 4890 Voltage Tweak, and once again embracing the true enthusiast in all of us.

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