Sapphire HD 4770 PCIe Graphics Card Review

Codenamed RV740, the HD4770 is ATI’s latest GPU that’s manufactured using TSMC’s 40 nanometer fabrication process. While most other chips adopt the 55nm process, AMD have seen fit to test the water with their new chip in the highly competitive budget/performance sector of the graphics card market. A smaller fabrication had benefits that enable the chip [...]

Inno3D GeForce GTX 275 OC Graphics Card Review

The funny thing about the GTX 275 is that it does kill a bit of the value for the GTX 285, which ultimately means that it’s not the best model for NVIDIA. For the user, however, it’s a different story. What you’re able to get is performance similar to the GTX 285 without having to [...]

EVGA GeForce GTX 275 Review

I remember a neighbour of mine, many moons ago, trying to convince me to upgrade my car’s engine. I had a little 4-banger student car and he had a 302 sitting in his garage. A 302…..V8……and he wanted to drop it into my Chevette. After listening to him explain how he’d redo the transmission, rear [...]

MSI N275GTX Lightning Sneak Preview

It seems that MSI has something interesting up their sleeves to showcase over at Computex but nevertheless we will bring you an early sneak peek at their upcoming N275GTX Lightning card. No clocks are revealed at this point of time yet. The cooler remains a mystery now but you can catch a glimpse of the [...]

XFX Radeon HD 4890 XXX 1GB video card review

We’ve already covered AMD’s latest flagship single GPU offering, the Radeon HD 4890, in a couple of different forms on launch day, but today it’s our turn to take a look at another part based around this SKU.
The subject of today’s review is another factory overclocked board, courtesy of XFX’s XXX range.  While it may [...]

First Radeon HD 4730 Card To Hit Retail Soon

The situation right now seems a little unfavorable for AMD as the Radeon HD 4770 stocks ran dry the moment the cards hit the market. Switching over to Radeon HD 4850 and HD 4830 might help a little but it seems HD 4830 stocks are running dry too.
As such, AMD is planning on releasing a new Radeon HD 4730 card [...]

MSI R4770 T2D512 Radeon HD 4770 Video Card Review

The recent economic downturn has affected all aspects of the computer industry including the CPU and video card industry. While in previous years the hardcore enthusiast have been willing to shell out a lot of bucks for the high-end video cards that market has dried up. NVIDIA’s margins for their video cards have gone way [...]

Sapphire’s Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X spotted

While we’re still waiting for the 1GHz GPU clock-topping Radeon HD 4890 Atomic, Sapphire has presented a new RV790-powered card to make use of a Vapor-X cooler. Named simply Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X, the card has a blue PCB and a dual-slot cooler (similar to that used on the Vapor-X Radeon HD 4870), 800 Stream [...]

Nvidia to increase 40nm orders with TSMC for 2009

Monica Chen, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 20 May 2009]
Nvidia has moved to scale up its orders for 40nm graphics chips at foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for 2009, according to sources at graphics card makers. The chip designer expects 40nm to account for 30% of its overall GPU shipments by the end [...]

TechPowerUp Radeon BIOS Editor v1.21 Released

TechPowerUp Radeon BIOS Editor (RBE) has been updated to version 1.21. RBE is our popular ATI Radeon graphics card BIOS manipulation utility. The new version brings about a few changes that enhance the application’s functionality and stability. The developer has listed the following important changes:
* Fixed minor glitch in BIOS flashing procedure
* Minor fixes and [...]

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