AMD/ATI
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Tom's Hardware's 2009 Gift Guide: Part 1, For System Builders
November 25, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Welcome to Part One of Tom's Hardware's Holiday Gift Guide. This first episode is geared toward those system builders planning to pool some ... Read more
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Radeon HD 5770, Radeon HD 4890, And GeForce GTX 275 Overclocked
November 24, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Can you hit the performance level of the next-fastest GPU by overclocking your graphics card? What is the impact on power consumption? Can your ... Read more
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Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: November '09
November 23, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Welcome to another edition of our Best Gaming CPUs for the Money. This month we have a handful of AMD-based processor introductions to factor ... Read more
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Tuning Cool'n'Quiet: Maximize Power And Performance, Part 2
November 19, 2009 – 2:00 AM
In Part 1, we showed you how to optimize the settings of your Cool'n'Quiet-equipped processor and what sort of power benefits you could expect as ... Read more
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ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB: The World's Fastest Graphics Card
November 18, 2009 – 12:00 AM
Despite the successful launches of its Radeon HD 5870, 5850, 5770, and 5750 DirectX 11-class graphics cards, there was one title ATI still ... Read more
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Tuning Cool'n'Quiet: Maximize Power And Performance, Part 1
November 16, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Think your Athlon or Phenom processor is already tuned to deliver the best balance between performance and power consumption? Think again. We ... Read more
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Part 1: Building A Balanced Gaming PC
November 10, 2009 – 2:00 AM
What does it mean to build a truly-balanced PC? How great would it be to piece together a machine bottlenecked by neither CPU or GPU? We set ... Read more
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Batman: Arkham Asylum: GPUs, CPUs, And PhysX Performance
November 9, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Batman: Arkham Asylum is purported to be the definitive Batman game. We're testing it on a range of mainstream graphics cards, a number of CPU ... Read more
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Best Graphics Cards For The Money: November '09
November 5, 2009 – 2:00 AM
There's actually a lot to discuss in this month's column: the introduction of AMD's new Radeon HD 5000-series GPUs, Nvidia's new GeForce GT 220 ... Read more
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AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE: Same Speed, Less Power
November 4, 2009 – 5:00 AM
Today AMD is introducing a revision of its flagship Phenom II X4 965 processor rated at 125W, replacing the 140W part, as well as a new 3.1 ... Read more
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Seven AMD 785G-Based Motherboards Rounded Up
October 27, 2009 – 2:00 AM
When AMD launched its 785G chipset, we were impressed by the mainstream value enabled from such an affordable platform. In this roundup, we're ... Read more
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Next-Gen 3D Rendering Technology: Voxel Ray Casting
October 21, 2009 – 2:00 AM
A little while back, we discussed some of the benefits and disadvantages of ray tracing. Today, we're going to be talking about another potential ... Read more
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Athlon II X3 435: AMD's Three-Core, 2.9 GHz, $87 Triple-Threat
October 20, 2009 – 12:00 AM
Today AMD introduces what might turn out to be the ideal budget CPU, with three cores for multi-threading, a relatively high 2.9 GHz clock speed, ... Read more
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ASI's IQ17-D2: Is Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 Still Fast Enough?
October 16, 2009 – 2:00 AM
After the launch of ATI's Cypress and Juniper parts, ATI's Mobility Radeon 3870 X2 is now three generations old. Is it still fast enough for ... Read more
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AMD Or Intel: Which $100 Gaming CPU Should You Buy?
October 15, 2009 – 2:00 AM
One hundred dollars seems like nothing for a new CPU, especially with so many new GPUs calling to us. We put the Athlon II X4 620, Phenom II X3 ... Read more
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Radeon HD 5770 And 5750 Review: Gentlemen, Start Your HTPCs
October 13, 2009 – 12:31 AM
In the last month, we've seen ATI take the performance crown with its Radeon HD 5870 and an enthusiast value position with its Radeon HD 5850. ... Read more
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ADVERTORIAL: ATI Radeon HD 4650/70: Top Value for Bottom Dollar
October 11, 2009 – 1:20 PM
AMD ATI's Radeon HD 5000 series is here. But, if your wallet isn't ready for the new top of the line cards, there's plenty of graphics power to ... Read more
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Athlon II Or Phenom II: Does Your CPU Need L3 Cache?
October 6, 2009 – 2:00 AM
AMD’s Athlon II X4 represents the first monolithic quad-core die without a shared L3 cache. Today, we're doing a more in-depth comparison between ... Read more
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Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: October '09
October 5, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Welcome back to another installment in our Best Gaming CPUs for the Money column. In this month's list of recommendations, a number of new CPUs ... Read more
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How Much RAM Does Your Graphics Card Really Need?
September 30, 2009 – 11:00 PM
Anyone who’s ever shopped for graphics cards has considered the amount of on-board RAM and the slight price premium each bump brings. But what ... Read more
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Radeon HD 5850: Knocking Down GTX 295 In CrossFire
September 30, 2009 – 12:00 AM
The Radeon HD 5870 we reviewed last week was nice, but $379 in an economic downturn is the new $650. We want something bigger on value, and we're ... Read more
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System Builder Marathon, Sept. '09: AMD System Value Compared
September 29, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Our response to reader-demand for AMD systems focuses on the company’s penchant for gaming value across three budget classes. How do these ... Read more
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System Builder Marathon, Sept. '09: $2,500 Performance PC
September 28, 2009 – 2:00 AM
Reader suggestions and previous test results defined most of this month’s highest-priced build. Will the extra planning and testing pay off in ... Read more
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System Builder Marathon, Sept. '09: $1,250 Enthusiast Build
September 25, 2009 – 2:00 AM
With a limited budget and high-resolution gaming in our sights, we spice up this quarter's $1,250 build with as many graphics cards as we can fit ... Read more
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System Builder Marathon, Sept. '09: $650 Gaming PC
September 24, 2009 – 2:00 AM
We kick off our third-quarter System Builder Marathon series with Paul's $650 gaming PC. Last time you asked for an all-AMD set of builds, and ... Read more