Introduction, Specifications and Packaging The X99 platform targets professionals who consistently work with complex multi-threaded workloads and require flagship processors ...
May 9, 2016 at 9:08 am by John Williamson
When AMD first launched their R9 290 and 290X GPUs back in 2013, many had mixed feelings for the blower style cooler. While the cooler was one of the best efforts yet from ...
October 31, 2015 at 12:00 pm by Samuel Wan
Something that AMD have been falling behind on lately is the WHQL drivers, well drivers in general. Beta drivers are released every few months, but a certified WHQL driver has ...
July 13, 2015 at 11:00 am by Rikki Wright
We’ve been waiting for details on the new memory architecture from AMD for a while now. Since we heard the possible specifications and performance of the new R9 390x all ...
May 19, 2015 at 12:59 pm by Rikki Wright
Introduction Here at eTeknix, we strive to give the consumer the best possible advice in every aspect of technology. Today is no different, as we have a pair of ...
April 3, 2015 at 3:58 pm by Rikki Wright
Introduction and A Closer Look The R9 290X has led AMD’s single GPU offerings for what seems like quite a long time now. Released in October 2013 the R9 290X is only a ...
November 6, 2014 at 5:54 am by Ryan Martin
Introduction AMD and Nvidia both talk fairly big when it comes to driver updates. With every driver iteration that is released we hear the usual technical (or should that ...
July 19, 2014 at 5:45 pm by Ryan Martin
The next-generation GPU wars based on new graphics architectures and 20/16nm process nodes is not set to begin until early 2015. In the meantime AMD and Nvidia are both having ...
July 16, 2014 at 9:37 am by Ryan Martin
Introduction Around a month ago we announced to you that AMD was releasing version 3.0 of its Eyefinity software package. One of the key new additions to AMD’s ...
July 8, 2014 at 12:42 pm by Ryan Martin
Some interesting news emerging from the Overclockers UK forums suggests that we could have an AMD R9 290X successor coming in the near future, possibly called the AMD R9 295X. ...
June 21, 2014 at 1:48 pm by Ryan Martin
Introduction AMD’s R9 290X is back in business when it comes to competing with Nvidia’s equivalents. The custom R9 290Xs easily beat out equivalently priced or ...
June 20, 2014 at 1:16 pm by Ryan Martin
Powercolor have recently made it known they are working on their own dual GPU R9 290X graphics card. From what we can see Powercolor are choosing to opt for the “Dual ...
May 27, 2014 at 1:08 pm by Ryan Martin
When it comes to overclocking there is no bigger name than the MSI Lightning series, time and time again it has proven itself the GPU series of choice for extreme overclockers ...
April 9, 2014 at 9:34 pm by Ryan Martin
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 ...
April 8, 2014 at 8:32 pm by Ryan Martin
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 ...
March 19, 2014 at 10:29 am by Ryan Martin
