Sapphire’s Radeon HD 7950 3GB video card is quite capable of pushing your gaming performance to new heights but if you find its performance lacking at some obscenely high resolution then you should consider a CrossFireX setup which can improve your frame rates, especially at ultra high resolutions which aren’t as CPU bound. You might […]
Read more Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 3GB demonstrates impressive multi GPU scaling ability
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
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
AMD’s APU based Llano cores have a reputation for being a bit on the mundane side since they don’t offer the same performance their Phenom II cousins tout, much less whatever Intel has put out in the past three years, but the ASUS F1A75-V Pro motherboard makes the case for this wonder of a chip. The […]
Read more ASUS F1A75-V Pro overclocks Llano APUs like a fiend
The ASUS P8H67-M EVO motherboard is the sort of board you want when there’s a system to be built which won’t see any form of enthusiast level tweaking. Aside from the restrictions on pushing your CPU there are a ton of reasons to consider this microATX board with its LGA1155 processor support and multi GPU capability […]
Multi GPU performance relies quite a bit on how well the graphics chips handle communicating with each other and the quality of the drivers that are available for the setups. The AMD Radeon HD 6870 and 6850 offer an intriguing combination of pricing, power consumption, temperature, and driver maturity that somehow manages to push their […]
Read more AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series CrossFireX scales quite nicely
The days of a single graphics card composing a high end gaming machine (dual GPU cards don’t count OK?!) are over but those reference designs aren’t exactly cooling or noise friendly. The PowerColor Radeon 5870 PCS+ alleviates that with its own heatsink design that incorporates a much larger fan compared to the impeller designs found […]
Read more PowerColor Radeon 5870 PCS+ plays well with others
The majority of enthusiasts build machines with their eye on all-out gaming performance which, more often than not, relies on graphics cards doing the heavy lifting. MSI has paired up the distinctively low-end AMD 770 chipset with Lucid’s Hydra frame gathering chip for a decidedly weird but totally workable motherboard. The Hydra chip enables you […]
LucidLogix’s Hydra graphics engine allows any motherboard infused with its awesome powers to accept graphics cards from the two major manufacturers and allows them to work in tandem as a Multi-GPU solution that doesn’t take into account CrossFireX or SLI capabilities. The technology does have its merits but it required motherboard manufacturers to add quite […]
Read more Lucid UNITY enables HYDRALOGIX Multi-GPU graphics processing possible for all
There has been a trend at the top of the motherboard market which sees a number of high priced models which push every conceivable barrier in the race to have the most powerful PC possible. The Gigabyte GA-X58-UD9 motherboard comes in at a wallet busting $700 US MSRP which is quite a bit for anything […]
ASRock used to be the manufacturer of motherboards with…some interesting design decisions. Their budget products typically combined the latest CPU support with a chipset that was a generation or two behind and it somehow all worked quite well together. The ASRock P55 Extreme4 on the other hand plays things by the book so that means […]
