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by Rafael Hernandez on October 6, 2008 · 0 comments

The general trend with graphics cards is to bump up the amount of memory on board to entice those that don’t know any better, oddly enough it actually helps in this instance. bit-tech has a look at the ATI Radeon…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 5, 2008 · 0 comments

Another week is upon us, here’s a few of the past week’s news and reviews making the rounds: Gaming Deus Ex 3 First Details – CVG Fresh Batch of Resident Evil 5 Screenshots – Kotaku Xbox 360’s Fall Update Games…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 4, 2008 · 0 comments

ATI has been firing on all cylinders up and down their product lines this year offering compelling feature sets and great performance at every price point. PC Perspective has a look at the Radeon HD 4670 which puts in some…

Read more ATI Radeon HD 4670, Another Mid-Range Option

by Pedro Hernandez on October 3, 2008 · 0 comments

Apple had a busy week and a little scare. Apple Rolls Out iTunes and Apple TV Updates Apple Avoids iTunes Shutdown, Users Rejoice Apple’s iPhone 2.1 Firmware a Miracle Worker? New Nintendo DS! But you can’t get one in the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 3, 2008 · 0 comments

Graphics chip makers have been doing a good job of increasing performance of their products but they haven’t been able to reign in the amount of heat their creations pump out. Dual slot coolers with high-speed noisy fans are the…

Read more Gigabyte GV-R485MC-1GH Graphics Card, Powerful and Silent

by Rafael Hernandez on September 30, 2008 · 0 comments

It’s not all about the massive framerates and insane resolutions with your fancy pants anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing, sometimes you just need a simple graphics card for web browsing and watching your Blu-rays. ATi’s new Radeon HD 4550 has many…

Read more ATi Radeon HD 4550, Targeting the Low-End

by Pedro Hernandez on September 30, 2008 · 0 comments

New budget cards from ATI offer hope for gamers on a budget, as long as you don’t push them too hard (the cards, not the gamers). Both go on sale in October, with Direct X 10.1 support and with the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 28, 2008 · 0 comments

Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 is finally joining the GPU processing club. The update to the professional graphics editing suite now includes an OpenGL acceleration option. Here’s what it means for all you pixelsmiths, from APC: For instance, with the…

Read more Photoshop Finally Puts GPUs to Use

by Rafael Hernandez on October 15, 2007 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has info on the newest batch of AMD TV Wonder products. With AMD and ATI merging one could have expected some products to be left by the wayside but they’re keeping the lineup going with a new…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 4, 2007 · 0 comments

PC Perspective puts a trio of high-end DX10 graphics cards through the wringer. Nvidia’s 8 series and ATI’s HD 2900XT make up the high-end of the market, currently, but their performance is less than high-end when you enable DirectX 10…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 1, 2007 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a look at the MSI RX2600XT Diamond graphics card. MSI has slightly factory overclocked this version and given it a two slot cooler to keep things from getting too toasty. Decent performance in the mid-range but don’t expect…

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