HIS today launched new 6970 EyeFinity Ready-to-See graphics cards, the perfect solution to enable AMD’s EyeFinity game play on up to three screens! The HIS 6970 RTS uses innovative technology to enable AMD’s EyeFinity via HDMI. Gamers no longer have to connect the DisplayPort output or use the active DisplayPort adapter in order to perform [...]

HIS (Hightech Information System) today introduced yet another Radeon card equipped with an custom, icy cooler, the Radeon HD 6870 IceQ 1GB. This is a stock-clocked model that’s claimed to run 24 degrees cooler and be 10 dB quieter than reference models. The temperature and audio advantages are enabled by the dual-slot IceQ cooler which [...]

We’re at that calm before the storm where video card releases become few and far between. We’re at the point where companies release slightly rehashed versions of cards we already know and love. We’re at the point where companies are sending out press releases about technology they’ve already had on the market for ages. That’s [...]

Despite serious changes in the graphics card market, 2011 may be called a year of “cold launches”. It looks like both, AMD and Nvidia, decided to spend their marketing budgets only on expensive products. Therefore, many interesting new graphics cards in the mainstream segment were announced without much excitement surrounding them. Today we will try [...]

Today we’ll find out if two of GIGABYTE’s HD6770 Silent Cell cards can match the performance of a Radeon HD 6950. We were impressed with how this no-fan silent configuration CrossFireX setup performed. However, is it worth $280 against the falling prices of the Radeon HD 6950? Gigabyte is a hardware manufacturer and one of [...]

Asian graphics card manufacturer known for its intriguing designs, Colorful, after a brief gap of four months, unveiled its latest graphics card in the works, under its Radeon-centric ColorFire brand. Called the ColorFire Xstorm HD 6850 X2 4GB, its name pretty much spells out what it’s about : a dual-GPU (CrossFire on-a-stick) graphics card with [...]

The ATI Radeon HD 5770 was one of our favourite cards from last year, with plenty of DirectX 11 gaming power at a reasonable price. For this reason we were keen to get our hands on the HD 6770 (now AMD rather than ATI-branded) to see if it could work the same mid-range magic. We’ve [...]

HIS (Hightech Information System) today unveiled its latest creation, a Radeon HD 6570 which features a low profile, boasts 2GB of DDR3 memory and makes use of a zero-noise, front and back passive cooler. Named Radeon HD 6570 Silence 2GB, HIS’ card includes 480 Stream Processors, a GPU clock of 650 MHz, a 128-bit memory [...]

At bit-tech, we love to see companies mixing it up with third-party graphics card coolers, as there’s often a lot of room for improvement on the reference models . HIS’ IceQ range of coolers are fine examples, dating back to the Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB, when its rebranded Arctic Cooling Silencer was in a different [...]

We’re fortunate here to have the opportunity to muck around with some of the best hardware that money can buy. Processors, motherboards, graphics cards, you name it. But at the end of the day we’re also consumers; we do buy hardware, believe it or not. Beyond that, we’re gamers like many of you, and with [...]

Gigabyte has implemented its Silent-Cell passive cooling design across multiple graphics cards, one of the notable offering being the high-end (for its time) Radeon HD 4850. The power ratings for high-end graphics cards has grown sustainably since then, so in today’s market passively cooled heatsinks tend to delegated to mid-range products such as the graphics [...]

SAPPHIRE Technology has just announced a new model in its successful HD 6800 series of graphics cards – the HD 6870 1GB Dirt3 Edition with Dual fan cooler and a voucher code for the full game in the package. The SAPPHIRE HD 6870 Dirt3 Edition has the same internal architecture as the standard model, with [...]

The Radeon HD 6950 often gets overlooked, because it falls into an in-between netherworld of pricing. Typical cards cost anywhere from $240-$300, but most seem to hover around the $270 mark. This MSI overclocked card, built using the company’s Twin Frozr III dual-fan cooler, sits at around $280. So high-end buyers overlook this price category [...]

So you say you want to get the fastest single video card out on the market in the HD 6990, but just can’t stand the thought of a Hoover running in your case at full song during a frag fest. What is one to do to resolve this dilemma? Buy another card or two? Nope? [...]

While we have reviewed several graphics cards from AMD’s Radeon HD 6000 series, one of the GPUs in this latest family that we have not benchmarked previously is the Radeon HD 6450. The AMD Radeon HD 6450 is the lowest-end offering in this family, but how’s its performance relative to other low-end AMD and NVIDIA [...]

At the moment we’re going through these little phases with video cards; we get a couple in and then it dies down for a few weeks. Then a few more come in and it dies down a little bit again. The latest card to slide into the lab here comes from Sapphire and is an [...]

We’re fortunate here to have the opportunity to muck around with some of the best hardware that money can buy. Processors, motherboards, graphics cards, you name it. But at the end of the day we’re also consumers; we do buy hardware, believe it or not. Beyond that, we’re gamers like many of you, and with [...]

The AMD Radeon HD 6670-based graphics card reaches 30fps on modern DX11 games As the name might suggest, this Sapphire HD 6670 Ultimate is the direct replacement for the HD 5670 Ultimate. The Sapphire Ultimate graphics card again comes passively cooled and is only a little more expensive than its older brother. So it’s essentially [...]

Today we are reviewing a new card from Gigabyte, the HD6770 Silent Cell, which is a passively cooled discrete graphics card built on a 2oz copper layer with full overclocking capabilities. Gigabyte also claim that temperatures with this design be reduced by 10% when compared against the reference solution. Is this an ideal graphics card [...]

SAPPHIRE claims to have produced the fastest HD 6950 on the market in the SAPPHIRE HD6950 TOXIC Edition. It competes with a stock Radeon HD 6950 and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570. We also put it to the test against a Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce GTX 580 with results that might shock you. And [...]