(Not) The fastest HD 4890 out there
1000MHz HD 4890s are all the rage these days, but Techarkade has a go at a Diamond HD 4890 XOC. This card comes factory overclocked at 925MHz / 1050MHz but the price is that of a reference card. Doesn't look like a bad deal.
It’s going to be a long dry spell until Windows 7 comes out and with it the DX11 graphics cards, but until then you can enjoy the tweaked-out current crop of graphics cards like the Inno3D Geforce GTX 275 OC, at Tweak Town…
Hot Hardware tests the Western Digital My Book World Edition NAS device. It seems to be a wildly popular device that gets you some serious UPnP and DLNA file serving across Gb Ethernet. The price is serious too *cough* … $450.
Ninjalane reviews the DFI LANParty DK 790FXB motherboard. Based on the two year-old 790FX chipset, this is the AM3 version of its predecessor board. Lots of OC’ing potential and even support for three graphics cards.
Notebook Review sat down with an HP Elitebook 8730w. This is a DTR notebook workstation that’ll chew and spit out anything you feed it while gleefully burning a hole in your pocket. $5000 will buy you a QX9300, Quadro graphics, blu-ray, HD panel and a 30 second battery life (sorta).
Virtual Hideout got a GMC R4 Bulldozer PC case to test. In its refrigerator-white colour, it looks like a ‘droid from Star Wars or something, but is a pretty cool case. It’s also very cheap for just $85.
Driver Heaven is testing the CoolIT Systems WS 240 on a couple of W5580 Xeons. It keeps the processors frosty at under 60 celsius and doesn’t even cost much (for a cooling system).
JonnyGuru tests the Tagan PipeRock II 680w PSU. It’s a fully modular PSU, stable and efficient that can get you a long way. We wouldn’t say £86 is cheap, tho’.
Hard OCP has done an article on CPU Scaling in real world games. The CPU+GPU combos tested show that Intel’s processors combined with AMD graphics do deliver the best performance out there.
Extremetech set up a Battle Royale with all the mainstream graphics cards (yes, they called it “budget”, but $250 is hardly budget). Everything from the 9600GT upwards is there.
If you want to see exactly how puny (yet cheap on power) an Atom processor is, Anandtech obliges. The Anandtech Bench site has been up for a while, but it’s now been updated with the garden variety Atoms.
Tom’s Hardware Emporium is trying out some kit to kill the noise from your HDD (other than buying an SSD). That includes the 3RSystem L-1100 T.REX and the GUP Smart Drive Neo.
Thrusted Reviews spent some time with the HTC Touch Diamond 2. The redesigned smartphone got upgraded with a bigger screen and improved TouchFlo3D, earning it a big approval from Niall.
Gaming interfaces haven’t really evolved that much over time, but Logitech’s G13 Advanced Keyboard looks the business. Takes some getting used to, but the mini LCD and backlit keys give you an extra edge. Think Computers has it. µ
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The 1050Mhz is the memory clock, not GPU clock. The card is overclocked to 925MHz GPU Core. And they don't even hit the now common 1Ghz in the review.
Why don't you go back, re-read the 4890 review, and then come back and fix your headline and specify core or mem on the clock speed. Seriously, you based the headline off of an article you've obviously barely read or understood.
That reviewer must be on some real serious crack if he thinks those benchmarks are close to reality.
20-30fps more from a 280gtx in some games? I'd love to know how the hell he came up with those scores.
76fps in crysis on a gtx280??? I think he must have forgotten to take out his other two gtx280's from his tri-sli mobo yes?
Those Crysis benchmarks are totally out of whack. Go take a look at benchmarks from reputable sites, Tom's, Anand's, etc. those numbers are wrong. They screwed up one way or the other.
Dear Mr. Paul Taylor: You Suck.
Those crysis readings makes no sense. What did nvidia pay for that reviewer. Actually, who cares. This article sucks.
are crying because the card can't consistently beat the old GTX chips they declared junk.
Man up Nancy's, it's still a couple bucks cheaper than the Nvidia card. That's what you do when you have a second place card, charge less. That's the same reason why a Lotus costs less than a Lamborghini.
I know it's tough since Nvidia wiped your fave vendor's clock for a couple years, but ATI smacked Nvidia around pretty hard with some of the 9x00 chips.
Fanboi's are soooo funny.
I am the reviewer of this article, I would like to say thanks for pointing out the Crysis charts. I took the max FPS recorded instead of the average. Sorry.
The charts are fixed though.
yup. since when was a GTX280 faster than a 275 anyway? more bandwidth/memory indeed, but the 275 is actually faster most of the time up to the highest resolutions because it has much faster shader and core clocks.