In March of last year, AMD/ ATI introduced us to the last and most powerful of its “Cayman” based family of video cards, the dual GPU HD 6990. Though significant refinements to the companies 40nm chip design led to a healthy increase in performance, it was one that came at the price of efficiency. Just […]

On November 14th we witnessed the release of Intel’s fervently anticipated x79 platform, which finally succeeds the long reigning  x58 as the company’s flagship chipset. Despite the enormous popularity of the initial generation of Sandy Bridge based technology and the readiness of most enthusiasts to adopt it over the older, more expensive Nehalem platform, neither […]

The week of May the 9th saw the release of Intel’s z68 chipset. Its mission? To combine the benefits offered by its two Sandy-bridge friendly elders. In addition to boasting the over clocking potential of the P67 and the integrated display found on the H67, this new chipset also includes a feature called Smart Response Technology, […]

Ati’s latest flagship offering  builds upon the success of its forerunner, the HD 5970 and is once again based around a dual GPU design.  The formidable 5970 emerged in the winter of 2009 and in terms of the overall level of performance yielded by a single card, arguably retained the number one spot throughout the whole of 2010.  Within this […]