MSI R5770 HAWK Radeon HD 5770 Video Card Review
Now that AMD has stopped producing the HD 4870 and HD 4890 chips, the HD 5770 is quickly taking over the $149 to $199 marketplace. MSI decided to shake things up a bit in a market overflowing with reference designs from multiple manufacturers. The R5770 is a fully custom part with some unique features that set it above the rest. Stable 1 GHz+ operation is not a fantasy with this card......
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Last but not least: PC Perspective sees Eyefinity 6-panel in action
You have likely seen other hardware and news sites posting pictures and video of some preliminary testing with a 6-panel Eyefinity gaming configuration, but I thought I would share this picture taken by our own A/V editor Ken A. We have the 2GB Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition graphics card in our test system and 6 Dell 22-in pan...
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NVIDIA teases with GPU performance that doesn't really matter
A little more news from NVIDIA today, but unlike the news post below, this isn't negative. NVIDIA is still waiting to release a next-generation card to compete with AMD's 5000-series that has been available since late September and while we know that something is coming on March 26th, they are teasing consumers once again with some early performan...
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NVIDIA 196.75 driver might be a GPU killer
Were you thinking of stopping by NVIDIA.com to get the latest 196.75 drivers released this week? Well don't. Did you already download those drivers and have them running on your system right now? Uninstall them and revert back to an older version! Why all the commotion? There are confirmed reports now of the 196.75 driver killing perfectly goo...
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Osborne, Felsenstein, Jobs and Woz's old club met for the first time, 35 years ago today
If you are looking at all the new hardware that has come out over the past few months and are trying to figure out just how long you will need to live on Ramen noodles in order to afford an upgrade, there is an easier way. Why not overclock your machine as far as it will go? Our Overclocking Forum is the perfect place to find out just how to do ...
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Dynamic Hybrid Transformer Topology and Enermax
The Enermax MODU87+ 700W sits in a sweet spot for PSUs, strong enough to handle any single GPU system as well as many dual GPU systems, but not in the 1kW or higher overkill class. The look on the outside is rather interesting, a rather clean casing is marred with multicoloured cooling, the heatsinks are blue and the fan is gold. Inside, the tota...
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Adding SATA 6Gb/s to SSDs
The Marvell 88SS9174-BJP2 controller brings SATA 6Gb/s to the Crucial RealSSD-C300. Benchmark Reviews has paired that SSD with an Intel ICH10R to see just how well the SSD can do. With peaks of 330 MBps on read and 225 MBps for writes, it would seem that one SSD still isn't able to saturate the new standard. It is still a lot of fun to see just ...
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Different manufacturer, same 890GX chipset
When Josh tested AMD's new 890GX chipset he used offerings from MSI and Gigabyte and while those were the only one sent to him to benchmark so far there are other manufacturers making 890GX boards. PC Stats received an ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 for testing. It offers the usual pair of PCIe 16x slots, dual channel RAM support and six SATA 6Gb/s, a ...
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Grab your own personal jetpack for only $75,000
The Mythbusters might not have been able to build their own working jetpack but Martin Aircraft will sell you one for under $100,000, though shipping from New Zealand might be expensive. The jetpack won't require a pilots license right now, but if they start selling many of these the chances are quite good that some regulations will be put in plac...
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My keyboard is a leaf on the wind, watch it soar
At Gizmodo you can see a keyless keyboard from Minebea called the Cool Leaf. It is one of three products that they have recently rolled out, the other two being a calculator and a universal remote control. All look like a translucent piece of plastic or glass but are in fact an electrostatic capacity type touch panel and a load sensor. Waterpro...
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The new coolers on the block hit the top of the pile
FrostyTech has updated their best heatsinks lists, in both Intel and AMD flavours, subdivided into the best coolers and the quietest coolers. The old favourites have been pushed off of their respective top spots in favour of new and improved models. In all half of the categories the top three heatsinks are new to the lists and as the old kings we...
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Intel's new budget Core i3-530
The new Core i3-530 is a 2.93GHz dual core processor that will set you back only $120 but you have to sacrifice support for Turbo mode if you do pick it. Ryan proved you don't actually need that button as without tweaking voltage he hit 4.08 GHz and by bumping up the voltage to 1.35V that soared to almost 4.5GHz, take that Turbo button! In many c...
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Forget GPU accelerated Flash, time for 3D enabled FireFox
At PC Perspective we have talked a lot about Ray Tracing, the people working to make it a reality and and the benefits it would bring, but we never discussed it as a plug in for a browser. That is exactly what the fellows at RT Fact are doing and you should be able to try out their custom version of Firefox relatively soon. As the fellows of Slas...
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Radeon HD5870s for under $400! Yes you can.
Josh spotted a great deal this morning on NewEgg for the HIS Radeon HD 5870 (H587F1GDG). You can grab the fastest single GPU graphics card on the planet for under $400, whether you are in the U.S. or in Canada ... there doesn't seem to be a NewEgg.mx, so we can't claim the sale is North American wide. For those readers in the states, you can ...
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Corsair launches Force seres of SSDs using SandForce controller
The hits just keep on coming as Corsair goes off like a company possessed releasing yet another line of solid state drives. Looking back at the Nova and Reactor lines first shown just this past Friday, the new Force-series of SSDs make a total of three new lines in under a week! Corsair is obviously intent on keeping or passing competitors like O...
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Patriot displays Project Artemis, a 10TB SSD based system with over 150,000 IOPS
Fremont, California, USA, March 3, 2010 - Patriot Memory, a global pioneer in high-performance memory, NAND flash and computer technology, today announced a 10TB SSD based Full ATX Workstation, code named Project Artemis, on display at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. Project Artemis is a blazing fast computer built using 40 256GB Patriot Torqx SSD dr...
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The HD 5970 4GB is big
The HD 5970 is a Radeon HD 5850 and HD 5870 sandwiched onto one board, topped with 4GB RAM all hidden beneath a very large cooler. Expected load power draw is just shy of 300W and the large three fan cooler hopes to keep the GPUs below 90C. Drop by HEXUS for some tantalizing shots of this heavy hitter from AMD. ...
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MAINGEAR Launching New 15" Multimedia Notebook
MAINGEAR Computers, the makers of custom desktop and notebook PCs, is announcing a new 15.6" notebook called the mX-L15. The mX-L15 features the latest Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, ATI Radeon Mobility 4570 with 512MB of RAM, and up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM. MAINGEAR, being a customizable outfit, allows you to choose from a variety of options includi...
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Met Western Digital's new SSD, now they swing both ways
While the original body of Western Digital has been very busy improving platter based hard drives, the company that they recently bought out, Silicon Systems has been developing an SSD for WD. The WD SiliconEdge Blue 256GB has a new branded controller and Allyn spotted quite a few similarities to a Kingston/JMicron board, though the performance d...
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Bad Company 2 picks up on destructible terrain
Ars Technica has a chance to take out Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and it left them with a fairly nice taste in their mouth, although they'd set the bar pretty low. The big news for many is the inclusion of destructible terrain, something that is left out of a huge number of games, but adds so much to them. In one case, the tester at Ars was pinn...
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8pin EPS12v cpu cable burnt CPU (see picture)
Image: http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/4495/dsc9864.jpg This is what happened to my amd athlon 4400+ x2 when I connected the 8pin EPS12v cpu...
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MCP6PB M2+ BIOS trouble, need advice
Hey all. I'm a PC enthusiast with little experience in BIOSes. I wanted to upgrade the BIOS to the latest. But I made 2 mistakes from what I can...
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hphosts file
Hello everyone (Windows 7 64 bit) I was wondering about downloading the hphosts file, but was just checking on a few things first. Do i download...
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Upgade for my GTX 260 (192)?
Looking to do an upgrade over my GTX 260 192core. Would a ATI 4670 or 5670 be a worthy replacement where I'd see a decent gain on BC2? I know a GTX...
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ATTENTION 'nVidia' Folders and others !
. *nVidia 196.75 drivers are potentially dangerous! ...
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Biostar TA790GXE 128M New Build - VERY FRUSTRATED!
Brand New Build......Here are the specs Biostar TA790GXE 128 Mobo AMD Phenom II X4 945 Deneb 3.0 Ghz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core A-DATA 4gb (2 x 2gb)...
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Newegg ships Fake i7 920s
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/web-business/newegg-ships-counterfeit-core-i7-920-cpus/ They accidentally shipped a reported 300 "Demo Boxes" to...
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NVIDIA 196.75 Drivers Can Kill Your GPU
NVIDIA 196.75 Drivers Can Kill Your GPU (http://hardocp.com/news/2010/03/05/nvidia_19675_drivers_kill_your_gpu) So be careful out there. :eek:
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I came up 30,000 short. oh so close.
I still can't believe it but I actually earned 970,000 credits for my March 4th crunching. It took me a couple of years to earn my first million, now...
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Going Noob on XP Home "Upgrade"
Was cleaning out a lot of "older" discs from my desk when I came across a pre-SP1 :eek: copy of XP Home Upgrade. Now here the questions.....I have a...
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Nvidia 196.75 Driver warning
Just read this over at ZDNet. http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7551 bb55
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A solid card for between $150 - $200??
Good afternoon gents/ladies, I have an older 9600GT OCX deal, forgot the vendor....pretty decent card, but am getting the itch to replace it. Case...
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X-25 V 40GB on ASUS SATA 6Gb/s controller?
Has anyone played with using a native SATA 3Gb/s SSD on a SATA 6Gb/s channel? Does it help in the least? I'm about to test this tonight. I have...
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SATA 2 vs. SATA 3 - What To Do??
With all the good things happening in the storage sector, I have a few questions, especially after reading the review of the WD SATA 3's on [H]ard...
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Console - ipod touch beta games
anyone have an ipod touch that they game on sometimes??? I recently applied for the We Rule beta by ngm and I love it check out the game play on...
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