Tag Archives: graphics card

As long-distance computing, streaming and cloud gaming become more common place, rendering more true-to-life virtual systems is becoming vitally important. That's why in the lead up to its Polaris architecture unveiling later this year, AMD has announced a new series of FirePro S-Series GPUs, which have the ability to virtualise …

Between the 17th and 19th of April, MSI, Team GB Benching, HWBot, and Overclock.net will be running their first OC Academy event. OC Academy is designed to bring together professional overclockers, budding enthusiasts, and tech-lovers, all of whom are keen to thrash MSI's hardware by way of liquid nitrogen in …

Asus Republic of Gamers has announced that it will be launching the Poseidon GTX 980 graphics card, featuring the DirectCU H2O cooler, which uses a hybrid solution for efficient cooling on air or water. According to the company's own tests, the Poseidon GTX 980 will run up to 27 degrees …

The Titan Z was notoriously known for being ridiculously expensive at launch, setting back early buyers by a hefty £2300 in the UK and $3000 in the US. However, Nvidia seems to be coming to its senses, the company has cut the regular price down to £1100 and retailers like Overclockers …

Gigabyte has managed to make the world's first Mini-ITX GTX 970 graphics card, powered by a single 8 pin power connector, cooled by a single fan and running at a clock speed of 1076 MHz, which is actually slightly higher than the 1051 MHz base clock speed found on the …

In an attempt to remain on top positions on the market of PC components, Asustek Computer recently started to cut prices on certain mainboards and plans promotions to sell bundles containing mainboards and graphics cards. In addition, the company plans to spend rather whopping amount of money to strengthen its …

Recent rumors are all pointing towards a GTX 880 reveal before the end of the year but it could happen sooner than you think as Nvidia is apparently planning a press event for next month, at which the company will reveal its Maxwell architecture and new flagship graphics card. However, …

If you've ever looked at the hard work we do here and KitGuru and thought, “I could do better,” we'd like to give you the chance to prove yourself. Over on our official Facebook page, we're giving away a brand new MSI R9 280 Gaming Edition graphics card to two lucky …

We all love to play games! It is likely your dream graphics card will be either a GTX 780 Ti or R9 290X. Not fast enough for you? – then how about AMD's R9 295X2 or Nvidia's Titan Z? Be prepared to dig deep into your bank account at £1,100 …

MSI has teamed up with XSplit Gamecaster in order to give a six month XSplit premium license to anyone who has purchased or will purchase an MSI Gaming branded graphics card between the 15th of April and the 31st of May. Both AMD and Nvidia cards from the low end …

Nvidia has launched its new GeForce game bundles, starting from today anyone who purchases select Nvidia branded desktop GPU's or GeForce powered notebooks will be able to redeem one of the two new offers. If you're about to purchase a a GTX Titan, 780 Ti, 780, 770, 760, 690, 680, 670, …

Overclockers UK is exclusively releasing the Inno3D GeForce GTX 780 iChill HerculeZ X3 Ultra DHS Edition. The long name aside the custom cooled solution, promises maximum overclocking performance with its triple fan design. This graphics card sets itself apart from the rest featuring cherry picked GPU chips to ensure that each …

Nvidia has just announced a new partnership with its system builders, to provide a standardised gaming PC package packing super high end hardware, offering outstanding performance. Known as the Battlebox™, these bundles will combine Intel Haswell CPUs, a 4K resolution monitor (running at 3840×2160 resolution) and a pair of GTX 780s …

Nvidia partner KFA2 has announced the upcoming release of its new, record breaking, superclocked GTX 780 GPU that sits at a whopping 1058MHz as it rolls out of the factory. According to KFA2, this gives it Titan levels of performance, with an impressive 20 per cent clock boost over standard …

Hightech Information System (HIS) introduces its fastest single-GPU graphics card, the HD 7970 X based on AMD's latest 7970 GHz Edition chipset. According to HIS, the card is already a world record breaker thanks to its 3dMark Vantage and 3Dmark 11 scores of 84669 and 29937 marks, respectively, when used …

A leak through Chinese channels not only further engrains previous confirmation that NVIDIA has a dual-GPU based GeForce GTX 690 in the works, but also lets a few more details out the bag on the specs front. This upcoming dual-GPU wielding weapon will be based on the 28nm GK104 silicon …

The next SKUs to appear in AMD's HD 7000 series lineup target the upper mid-range segment. These will be the Radeon HD 7850 (in both 1 and 2GB GDDR5 flavours) and the HD 7870, all of which are said to be on track for arrival in March. The ‘Pitcairn' 28nm …

A report has surfaced over at AnandTech that the Corporate VP & CTO of AMD's Graphics Division, Eric Demers is finishing up with the company at the end of this week for reasons unknown at this time. Anand said that, “he's not going to Intel or NVIDIA but I suspect …

Thanks to a freshly leaked GPU-Z screenshot we can ascertain the specifications of one of AMD's next desktop cards in line, the mid-range HD 7770 which is on the verge of release. Based on the new “Cape Verde” GPU, the card will feature a lesser number of better-configured Graphics CoreNext …

PowerColor looks to be all over the Radeon HD 7970 with previous sightings of its suped up Vortex and LCS models and now another custom-cooled behemoth from the company appearing online. We're not exactly sure what model name PowerColor has planned for this dual-fanned version, but presumably it'll be a …

As promised at CES by CEO Steve Ballmer earlier in the month, Microsoft's commercial Kinect for Windows (v1.0) SDK along with its accompanying, slightly customized hardware has just officially been launched and for a suggested MSRP of $249.99 you might be quick to scream out “Madness!” in line of the …

Thanks to a conspicuous document making it's way onto the internet, we can learn more about AMD's plans for the HD 7000 series of cards beyond the now launched HD 7970 and HD 7950 models. We knew the line-up would (eventually) be as busy as prior generations were, if not …

Gabe of Swiftech has kindly given us a treat over at the XtremeSystems Forums in the form of some pre-release CGI drawings of the company's upcoming waterblock to suit the new Radeon HD 7970. The block gives full coverage, making physical contact with the entire PCB area of the card …

The first retail listing for the soon to be launched HD 7950 has popped up, that being from online distributer PROVANTAGE who are advertising a model from GIGABYTE (GV-R795WF3-3GD) for pre-order at quite the inflated price indeed – ‘Only' $481.58. The specs provided are minimal in the advertisement – HD …

Powercolor have really been delivering the goods in 2010 and their latest model might not sound too exciting until we point out that it is a passively cooled HD6850! Kitguru loved the XFX HD5670 and Sapphire HD5670 passively cooled solutions as they were ideal for media centers and people who …