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AMD Radeon HD 7790 Shootout
The new AMD Radeon HD 7790 bridges the mid-range gap between the Radeon HD 7770 and Radeon HD 7850 cards. The Radeon HD 7790 utilizes a completely new GCN (Graphics Core Next) 28nm GPU, codenamed Bonaire. Here's our thoughts on the card as well as two custom models from ASUS and Sapphire.
8GB DDR3-2133MHz Memory Modules Shootout
DDR3-2133 memory modules reside at the sweet spot of being able to support the official memory standards of the latest Intel and AMD PC hardware platforms and has the headroom to excel further without a heavy toll on your wallet. Let's take a look at five such 8GB memory kits for comparison.
AMD A85X Series Motherboard Roundup
The introduction of AMD Trinity desktop APUs that require the new AMD FM2 CPU socket saw a trickle of such motherboards from the usual board makers. We gathered four motherboards from ASUS, ASrock, Gigabyte and MSI that feature the AMD A85X chipset and put them to the test.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Shootout - True Mid-range Performer
As the first true mid-range Kepler card, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 is fitted with a brand new GK106 core and priced at an attractive US$229. NVIDIA claims that this card offers the best price-performance ratio out of the entire Kepler series. We take it for a test drive as well as custom models from ASUS, GIGABYTE and MSI.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti Shootout - We are Titanium
NVIDIA has launched the upper mid-range GeForce GTX 660 Ti, which is the first sub-US$300 card to utilize its 28nm Kepler architecture. As expected, almost all of NVIDIA partners have produced their own custom overclocked models. Find out if it was worth the wait in this shootout of the finest from ASUS, GIGABYTE and Palit graphics cards.
AMD Radeon HD 7870 - A Five-Way Shootout
The mid-range AMD Radeon HD 7870 is positioned in the sweet spot between price and performance, sandwiched between the high-end Radeon HD 7950 and the basic mid-range Radeon HD 7770. We bring together almost every custom version of this card to find out which is worth your money.
AMD Radeon HD 7970 Duel - ASUS vs. Sapphire
We pit two high-end factory-overclocked, custom Radeon HD 7970 cards against each other to determine which is deserving of your hard earned money. Plus, we see how they compare to NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 SLI vs. AMD Radeon HD 7970 CrossFire
With the top GPU offering based on renewed architectures from AMD and NVIDIA out in the market, we decided to kick things up a notch further by pitting the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 in SLI configuration against the AMD Radeon HD 7970 in CrossFire setup. Can NVIDIA still hold its fort? Read on to find out!
USB 3.0 1TB Portable (2.5-inch) HDD Shootout
Super speed your file transfers with a USB 3.0 portable hard drive. In this shootout, we look at 1TB offerings from Buffalo, Imation, Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital.
AMD Radeon HD 7970 & HD 7950 - Heading to Southern Islands with Tahiti
AMD goes over 7000 with its new flagship GPU built on a 28nm process. The new GPU architecture is called Graphics Next Core (GNC) which supports HDMI 1.4a as well as DisplayPort 1.2 HBR2. We pit the new Radeon HD 7970 and 7950 models to see how far they've progressed from its predecessors. Can it unseat the GeForce GTX 580 from its throne on all accounts?
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