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Gigabyte GTX 750 Ti WindForce 2X OC 2GB Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging I’ve tested a lot of GTX 750 Ti graphics cards so far and none of them have really impressed me at all. A lot of vendors seem to have assumed that because Maxwell is an impressive cool running GPU they can skimp out on the quality…
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ASUS GTX 750 Ti OC 2GB Graphics Card Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging The Nvidia GTX 750 Ti is a great graphics card but the reference design that we reviewed was lacking a little something. I am hoping that today ASUS can bring some improvements to the table with the ASUS GTX 750 Ti OC graphics card we are…
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KFA2 GTX 750 Ti OC 2GB Graphics Card Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging Nvidia’s GTX 750 Ti is a great graphics card, when we reviewed it a few months ago we were impressed by the level of power efficiency and performance that you got for the price of $150. However, at the same time the reference design delivered by…
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Sapphire AMD Radeon R7 265 Dual-X 2GB Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging AMD’s R7 265 launch preceded that of the GTX 750 Ti by about 5 days. AMD’s R7 265 aimed to do what many of the current RX 200 series products already do – bring HD 7000 product rebrands into the latest generation at reduced prices with…
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Powercolor R7 250X 1GB GDDR5 Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging While Nvidia’s GTX Titan Z and AMD’s R9 295 X2 graphics cards may be stealing all the headlines, the real battle between Nvidia and AMD is occurring at those lower end price points where the bulk of graphics cards are sold. A quick look at the…
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Sapphire R7 250 Ultimate Passive 1GB GDDR5 Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging Sapphire’s Ultimate series already has quite a reputation for consumers interested in passively cooled AMD graphics cards. Sapphire have been making their Ultimate series with AMD graphics cards for a very long time and there is a common trend among all the GPUs – they tend…
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AMD Kabini AM1 Athlon 5350 APU (FS1b) Review
Introduction Today we are looking at AMD’s new AM1 platform and given that I am writing with the realms of a traditional “tech enthusiast” website you’ll either think this is a great platform with potential, or just too slow to add anything new to the market. However, I am in…
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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 8GB Graphics Card Review
Introduction The AMD Radeon R9 295X2 graphics card is finally upon us. I know a lot of people have been eagerly awaiting this graphics card for the last few months – I myself I have been tracking its existence since AMD phased out the HD 7990 – it was inevitable…
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XFX R9 280 Double Dissipation Black Edition OC 3GB Review
Introduction The AMD HD 7950 was probably the best GPU of the entire HD 7000 series in my honest opinion. It offered stellar value for money for high performance gaming – often overclocking to HD 7970 levels for a much lower price. The HD 7950’s popularity then got the better…
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HIS R7 250 iCooler Boost Clock 1GB Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging When it comes to gaming on a strict budget there are a tonne of choices: AMD’s R7 240, R7 250 and R7 250X all fall beneath the $100 price point while Nvidia’s GT 630 and GT 640 graphics cards also fall beneath the $100 level. If…
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XFX R7 250 Core Edition Passive 1GB Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging While the low-end graphics card market is fairly monotonous, passive graphics cards always make for interesting system builds and the XFX R7 250 we have here today this is certainly no exception. The R7 250 from AMD offers a surprisingly punchy amount of performance for quite…
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XFX R7 240 Core Edition Passive 2GB Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging The R7 240 may not be the most exciting graphics card to review but I think this review will still be interesting for a number of reasons. Firstly, the R7 240 is incredibly affordable at just $69.99. Believe it or not graphics cards in the sub…
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AMD Kaveri A10-7850K Overclocking Analysis
Introduction AMD’s Kaveri K Series APUs have a wealth of untapped performance potential: out of the box they come with a modest 720MHz GPU core clock speed, yet anyone who has toyed with AMD APUs in the past knows there’s going to be a lot of overclocking headroom. Before we…
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AMD R9 290X CrossFire V Nvidia GTX 780 Ti SLI
Introduction When I wrote our first “4K Gaming Showdown” article, nearly 6 months ago, the article was very popular among our readers. However, one of the most common pieces of feedback I received was something to the tune of: “As 4K monitors are so expensive most people who would be…
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Memory Scaling On The AMD Kaveri A10-7850K APU
Introduction – Memory Scaling on Kaveri AMD’s Kaveri APUs are dependent on system memory. The easiest way to explain this dependency is by thinking of the GPU on the Kaveri APU as a graphics card, but with one significant difference – on its own it has no video memory. The…
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