ASUS is back making another play for your hard-earned upgrade money. This time, ASUS have brought out the EAH5870 V2 STALKER Edition, a Radeon HD 5870 with an improved cooling device. Does a bundled game and improved cooling device make up for its $100 price premium?

ASUS is a Taiwanese computer hardware manufacturer, best known as a builder of high-quality mainboards for mainstream and enthusiast desktop PCs. Over the many years the company has been in business, it has expanded its business into graphics cards, sound cards, notebooks, Netbooks, displays, and many other product lines. It is perhaps one of the best-known hardware manufacturers in the business, and it would be very hard to find a gamer or other hardware enthusiast who has not owned an ASUS product, or is not familiar with the brand.

Today, we’re going to examine one of ASUS’s newly re-designed Radeon HD 5870 graphics card, the ASUS EAH5870 V2 STALKER Edition. It features an ATI Radeon HD 5870 GPU paired with 1GB of GDDR5, a slightly higher GPU frequency and a game bundle all for $448.

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