Never heard of Global Agenda? Me either till today. We are however giving the game development company a free pass here to tell you to NOT buy this new game. Confused yet? You won't be after you read this editorial, but you still will be punished for being a "Hi-Rez" user.
Today, AMD is launching the Radeon HD 5570. At $75-85 MSRP, the Radeon HD 5570 sits in-between the Radeon HD 5450 and Radeon HD 5670. The question on the table is, what is its value when the Radeon HD 5670 sits close in price? We’ll bring this question to bare, and show you our gameplay experiences, and provide our opinions on the value of this video card.
Thermalright has been a company name that is synonymous with high end CPU air cooling for years now. Tuniq is one of the newer guys on the block when it comes to the elite heatsink and fan unit. Today we have a showdown of epic proportions, at least to the computer hardware cooling enthusiast. Propeller vs. Venemous X.
AMD's lowest-end discrete GPU to support DX11 is being launched today at $49-$59 MSRP, the ATI Radeon HD 5450. We will give you all the official information on this new video card, plus some power and temperature testing and a simple apples-to-apples DX11 game test using DiRT 2.
Dark Void was recently released with some neat PhysX effects. We’ll explore gameplay performance and show you what PhysX support will do for you in this game with plenty of screenshots and performance comparisons.
The X58A-UD7 is GIGABYTE's newest entry into the fiercely competitive LGA1366 board arena. The board packs a lot of promise, built on GIGABYTE's tried and true X58 based design with some nice bells and whistles added for that extra bit of appeal including USB 3.0 and SATA III features.
The ASUS Maximus III Gene expands not only the Republic of Gamers product line, but the lineage of "Maximus" motherboards ASUS has created under the name. Thus far every Maximus board has been nothing short of excellent and even bordering on legendary, the Maximus III Gene continues this tradition.
Today we have the ASUS EAH5750 Formula video card on our test bench and we put it through its paces. The ASUS EAH5750 Formula offers a big custom heatsink and fan unit, but the big question is does it offer any advantages to gamers or is it just a lot of hot air?
ABS has a long history in the do-it-yourself computer components market. ABS was the company that spawned the creation of Newegg. ABS has had its own computer power supply line for some time, but overall the products have been weak. Is the latest ABS Majesty true royalty at 1100 watts, or another PSU court jester?
If running a canned benchmark is something you consider a challenge, this is not for you! In fact, it is not for most of us. But if you feel the need to get under the covers when it comes to OpenCL, this is your chance. AMD has put together a short series of videos about OpenCL from a programming viewpoint.
NVIDIA's "Fermi" next generation GF100 GPU is not here yet. Nope, we do not have hardware. But NVIDIA has given us an in-depth look at the specifics behind the architecture as it relates to gaming. NVIDIA certainly remembered us gamers and the fact that we like lots and lots of polygons.
AMD brings DX11 down to the sub-$100 level today with the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 5670. This new video card marks DX11’s entrance into the low-end realm, but does it have the performance needed to use the special DX11 features like Tessellation in games? We run this video card through its paces and use DiRT 2 to find this out. We also compare to the GeForce GT 240 and Radeon HD 5750.