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by Rafael Hernandez on March 12, 2012 · 0 comments

The Diamond Multimedia Radeon HD 7970 has a tough job setting itself apart from all the other reference design based cards on the market… luckily its impressive performance capabilities are more than enough to capture people’s attention. Behind its run of the mill cooler beats the heart of 2048 compute unite and 3GBs of extremely […]

Read more Diamond Radeon HD 7970 3GB is the reference card you desire

by Rafael Hernandez on January 20, 2012 · 0 comments

A hefty graphics solution is, sometimes, the only way to improve your high resolution gaming experience which an AMD Radeon HD 7970 3-way CrossFireX setup is more than happy to oblige you with. Normally such an extreme setup would require quite a bit of CPU power in order to drive the cards in the latest […]

Read more Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 3way CrossFireX speeds up your gaming performance

by Rafael Hernandez on January 9, 2012 · 0 comments

XFX’s Radeon HD 7970 Black Edition video card didn’t have many options when it came time to improving on an already fast and powerful gaming option so they did the only sensible thing… upgraded its cooling solution and increased clock speeds. The old reference cooler is out in favor of a custom dual fan cooler […]

Read more XFX Radeon HD 7970 Black Edition improves GPU cooling

by Rafael Hernandez on January 3, 2012 · 0 comments

Efficiency is a tough thing to pull off in the video card world especially when you have to synchronize what two separate GPUs are doing… not to mention three of them. Which makes the news that the AMD Radeon HD 7970 scales extremely well when a pair of buddies show up in order to chew […]

Read more AMD Radeon HD 7970 exhibits awesome triple CrossFireX scaling

by Rafael Hernandez on December 22, 2011 · 0 comments

AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 marks the company’s first new GPU architecture change in almost two years so you can bet they’ve put in quite a bit of work into the design. The “Tahiti” cored video card sports 2048 stream processors, which is a hefty bump from the 1536 cores the Radeon HD 6970 trotted around […]

Read more AMD Radeon HD 7970 redefines video card performance

by Rafael Hernandez on November 14, 2011 · 0 comments

Server processors, like the new AMD Opteron 6200, normally don’t capture much attention but this chip just so happens to pack in 16 cores into a handy package that should be a drop in replacement for existing AMD based servers which is especially enticing to the companies running high performance super computers. The CPUs are […]

Read more AMD Opteron 6200 packs more cores for your server needs

by Rafael Hernandez on October 21, 2011 · 0 comments

AMD’s long awaited Bulldozer architecture was launched last week to a mixed reception. There was hope for a high end contender but there should have been more measured expectations from the FX 8150 and its brothers… still there may be some hope for the processor since AMD is planning on including a rather hefty water […]

Read more AMD FX 8150 water cooling enables more go fast juice

by Rafael Hernandez on October 12, 2011 · 0 comments

AMD’s Bulldozer design has been quite elusive with rumored delays on the company’s latest architecture change in quite a few years. The FX 8150 CPU does its magic with four modules that each host two CPU cores that share resources with each other that should improve performance without increasing the size of the processor greatly. […]

Read more AMD Bulldozer FX 8150 finally makes an appearance

by Rafael Hernandez on September 29, 2011 · 0 comments

It’s rare to see a video card like the PowerColor Radeon HD 6770 PCS+ Vortex II especially when the price range it’s competing in is filled with plenty of inexpensive models that rely on a reference cooling system. Impressively the company has gone with a massive heatpipe and fan combination which is virtually unheard of in […]

Read more PowerColor Radeon HD 6770 unmatched cooling prowess

by Rafael Hernandez on September 29, 2011 · 0 comments

Laptops like the ASUS A53T rarely come about since they break the mold in so many ways. There’s its quad core APU, which goes by the name of AMD A6-3400M, and a discrete Radeon HD 6650M graphics card that pair up inside of its 15.6″ confines in a mobile CrossFireX frenzy. It disappoints a bit […]

Read more ASUS A53T Notebook exudes gaming potential

by Rafael Hernandez on September 21, 2011 · 0 comments

The ECS A75F-A is a bit overkill for playing host to a CPU platform that’s a bit more budget oriented than the rest but that just gives you more reasons to upgrade further on down the road. When it’s paired up with the AMD Fusion A6-3650 APU you have yourself a potent machine capable of […]

Read more ECS A75F-A Motherboard pairs up with the AMD A6-3650 APU quite nicely