Archive for December 2010

GPU-Z 0.5.0 Available

Graphics Cards 1673 Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 0

Michael over at TPU issued a new revision of GPU-Z. GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.

  • Added full support for Radeon HD 6950 and HD 6970
  • Fixed TMU/Texture Fillrate rounding error on NVIDIA cards
  • Improved voltage monitoring support for GTX 570
  • Workaround for ATI OpenCL driver crashing GPU-Z on systems with NVIDIA cards
  • Fixed crash when driver version could not be read
  • Fixed crash when splash screen interrupted by message box

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PowerColor ships custom Radeon HD 6970 and 6950

Graphics Cards 1673 Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 0

PowerColor outted their own design Radeon HD 6900 graphics cards.

TUL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of AMD graphics cards, today announces its own design HD6900 series solution. Featuring all the latest technology, the PowerColor HD6900 series includes the HD6970 and HD6950. The HD6970 clocks at 880MHz core speed and 1375MHz memory speed, easily accelerating your PC with up to 2.7 teraFLOPs of computing power. The HD6950 clocks at 800MHz core speed and 1250MHz memory speed, enabling the demanding gamers to be flawlessly presented.

The PowerColor HD6900 series has equipped with unique dual fan cooling solution; built with two ultra big 9.2cm cooling fans and 8


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KFA2 - Galaxy GeForce GTX 460 HOF

Graphics Cards 1673 Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 0

Expreview has been showing pictures of the Galaxy GeForce GTX 460 HOF (Hall of Fame) graphics card. This new model features digital power supply technology and has a white PCB. It uses a 6-pin + 8-pin power design and is equipped with a DisplayPort output. The cooling solution features four 6mm copper heatpipes, a copper base, a large aluminium fin array and a compact fan.

GeForce GTX 460 HOF packs GF104 core,features 336 stream processors,1GB GDDR5 memory,core/Shader/memory clock of 850/1700/1000MHZ(Date rate of 4000MHz) with memory interface of 256-bit.

The graphics card adopts tantalum capacitors and 6+2 phase power supply design with six phase for core while two phase for memory. As for core power supply solution,it is made up by VT1185M main controller chip,six VT1157SF subsidiary controller chips and Bussmann CPL power inductor.


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Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD review

Soundcards and Speakers 106 Published by Steven ROBSCIX Wall 0

The SoundBlaster X-Fi Titanium HD. This card has many aspects in common with existing X-FI designs and a few new features and modifications to appeal to the newer crop of demanding soundcards enthusiasts.


Transform your Radeon 6950 into a 6970 with a new BIOS

Graphics Cards 1673 Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 0

Guru3D.com ImageTwo days ago what we initially expected, it became apparent that the Radeon HD 6950 in fact is a 6970 with shader processor clusters disabled. You'll need to re-flash your card though.

You can perform the flashing process from within Windows and thanks to AMD's new Dual-BIOS feature if something would go wrong, you can switch back.

Unlock your Radeon HD 6950 towards a  6970, Merry Christmas:

More info:

Download package with flash software and BIOS:

We successfully tested an unlock on a HD 6950 cards. Other have tried one AMD engineering sample, one HIS media sample and one ASUS retail card. All of them unlocked perfectly and run at HD 6970 speeds now.


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Guru3D Christmas Competition 2010 #2

Contest 32 Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 0

For our second little Christmas 2010 contest we feel it's time for the traditional logo hunt contest ! To keep things cool we teamed up with Noctua and Coolink as we'll be handing out processor coolers including some of the most sexy CPU coolers we know you guys love so much.

Read all about it right here.


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