Reviews

Quote: "AMD has revised its current flagship CPU, the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition into a slimmer electricity sipping 125W model, down from the initial 140W TDP processor released earlier this year. Since this is a refresh, there are only a few differences between the otherwise identical CPUs. New to the "C3" 125W revision AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition is hardware implementation of the C1E enhanced halt state; basically a tool in the CPU power saving chest to reduce clock speeds on the fly."

Article URL: http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2468

Quote: “Today I will be looking at a GTX 260 by Sparkle, the GTX 260 Plus. This isn’t your typical GTX 260, as it sports 1792 megs of memory. I reviewed a couple of Radeon HD 4870 X2s that each had two gigs of memory, but they were actually two 4870s with 1GB of memory per GPU. This is a single GPU with not much less than two gigs for itself. Will this massive amount of graphics memory make a difference? Read on to see!"

Article URL: http://www.thinkcomputers.org/sparkle-geforce-gtx-260-plus-1792mb-video-card-review/

Quote: "With the recent arrival of the new ATI Radeon HD 5 series graphics cards causing a great deal of interest, the previous best performing single GPU from ATI – the 4890 – has been left by the way side a little. Although, on the whole, the ATI DX11 GPU launches have been a great success for ATI, many users will still be sticking to the 4 series, if not older, cards and as ATI seeks to monopolise the DirectX11 Market with nVidia’s Fermi Technology lagging far behind, it’s definitely a good time to be investing in a 4890 or other 4 series GPU.

To further the lure of the 4890, ASUS have been quick to beef up the card with a unique cooler allowing for increases to both the memory and core frequencies. Being part of the “Formula” series is essentially equivalent to Sapphire’s Vapor-X or XFX’s XXX Edition cards whereby the stock 4890 is overclocked and tweaked to ultimately create a better, more unique card. Let’s take a look."

Article URL: http://www.xsreviews.co.uk/reviews/graphics-cards/asus-eah-4890/