HIS Radeon HD 6950 2GB @ TweakTown
“Today we find out what kind of performance the HD 6950 is able to give us when we Crossfire this bad boy. Coming in at more than $100 less than the HD 6970 CF setup, while also carrying the HD 6900 series name verse the HD 6800 series name, this could be the setup you’re looking for. What we’re going to answer today, though, is whether or not this be a setup you should be paying attention to.”
PowerColor PCS+ HD 5870 @ TweakNews
“When it comes to the decision of upgrading to the latest and greatest, the PowerColor PCS+ HD 5870 sure doesn’t make that decision easy. In some benchmarks, it pulled ahead, and in other game which highly rely on tessellation, it fell behind. Where the decision comes in is whether the difference in your mind is worth the US$50-$70 for a couple frames per second.”
Palit GTX 570 Sonic Platinum @ TBreak
“That’s a 9% Core and Shader clock, and 5% Memory clock increase. The price increase is almost 10% compared to normal GTX 570 (AED 1,490) but still 21% cheaper than a GTX 580 (AED 1,989). Let’s see if the performance holds up to those numbers. Before that however, I will get down to the other important improvement to the Palit GTX 570 Sonic Platinum: the new cooling solution.”
MSI H55M-ED55 @ Fudzilla
“This µATX board is similar to any other board on the market. For some reason all the manufactures think it’s a good idea to put two PCIe x16 slots on such boards. Due to the limitations of the chipset you just can forget about Crossfire or SLI. But you can use this slot with any other PCIe x1 card.”
Intel Core I7 950 3.06GHz @ Legit Reviews
“The Intel Core i7-950 3.06GHz quad-core processor is a very fast and affordable desktop processor from the second you pull it out of the box. This Intel LGA 1366 processor runs at 3.33GHz when in Turbo Mode, has 8 MB of cache and has gobs of bandwidth thanks to the QuickPath Interconnect (QPI).”
Intel Core i5 Processor Series @ iXBT Labs
“What should you do, if you aren’t willing to spend more than 150-250 dollars on a processor? Obviously, you’ll have to compromise, e.g. choose Core i5 instead of Core i7 (if you need an Intel CPU, that is). But there are a lot of Core i5 processors in the market. How do they perform? We’ll see in this review.”
Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600 8GB @ Think Computers
“Corsair is a company that we all know for memory and rightfully so, their Dominator Series of memory has been the flagship for their DDR3 line for some time now. Today we will be looking at a new enthusiast line of memory called Vengeance. The Vengeance line is aggressively priced and with a lower voltage rating of 1.5V instead of the normal 1.65V you should be able to these modules to the limit.”
Patriot Viper Xtreme PC3 16000 @ OC Club
“The addition of the copper strips between the memory modules and the extruded aluminum heat spreaders is a nice addition to help keep the heat down in these memory modules. This design improves on the AOC concept used on the original Viper Series modules. The cool running modules help bring stability to higher end overclocks.”
ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme @ Vortez
“Once again we are in the presence of something very special here at Vortez, the highly anticipated new motherboard from ASUS… the Crosshair IV Extreme. Sharing some similarities with its ‘Formula’ sibling the Extreme brings a selection of additional features to the table and is designed to represent the pinnacle of performance hardware for AMD’s AM3 platform. It’s almost certainly going be on a few enthusiasts Christmas lists!”
ASUS Rampage III & Sabertooth X58 @ Tech Report
“Although the Rampage III Gene has a pretty good selection of connectivity options, it’s conspicuously missing external Serial ATA ports. There’s certainly room for eSATA, and I suspect most users would gladly give up one of the eight internal SATA ports to get an external option.”