MSI has put a serious amount of effort into increasing their exposure within the gaming community. Their Z68 motherboards were among the first to include support for PCI-E 3.0, the GTX 580 Lightning and follow up Lightning Extreme Edition were two of the most impressive cards we reviewed all year and their notebooks continue to [...]

Today MSI has given us an opportunity to check out their Twin Frozr III 6950 1GB. What makes this a bit different from other 6950′s are the 1GB of memory and MSI’s Twin Frozr III cooler which make claims of ~14 dB quieter and 11 °C temperature differences over reference cooled models. It is also [...]

We aren’t graced with a cornucopia of tightly spaced game releases every fall. This one looks particularly bountiful, though. Rage is fresh out the door, and still to come are juggernauts like Battlefield 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Batman: Arkham City, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. As the days get shorter and [...]

Graphics-card manufacturer XFX is waiting patiently for the Radeon HD 7000-series of GPUs to appear. The interminable wait enables the company to keep its virtual larder full of Radeon HD 6K cards. Underscoring this stacking of GPUs is the HD 6950 range, which is home to no fewer than eight cards – five clocked in [...]

Today we will be looking at a 1GB Radeon HD 6950 from MSI sporting its latest cooling innovation, the Twin Frozr III. Will 1GB of VRAM constrain the Twin Frozr III, or will Triple Over-Voltage support give it enough boost to soar past a 2GB HD 6950 and GeForce GTX 570? Microstar International (MSI) is [...]

Today we are looking at three new cards from XFX which feature their latest ‘DD’ cooling system. Before you all jump to wrong conclusions, it actually stands for ‘Double Dissipation’ – a dual fan system with 3 direct contact copper heatpipes. XFX claim record low temperatures and equally impressive noise emissions. Are the HD6950 DD, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Looking at the title, we’ve called this a review, but in reality, it’s not really as we won’t be looking at the hardware used in their own entity but instead will be purely focussing on the performance that three 6950 Radeon’s can output when put into a multi GPU configuration. If like me, you crave [...]

AMD released the 6950 graphics card quite some time ago, but it’s still one of the best selling cards around as it gives customers great performance for a reasonable price. From time to time, some partners bundle games or certain software with their cards to give something extra to their buyers. Today sees us taking [...]

Sapphire today announced its HD 6950 Toxic Edition graphics card, calling it “the fastest production card in its class.” To back up that claim, Sapphire set the graphics engine at 880MHz and the 2GB of onboard memory at 1330MHz for an effecitive 5.2Gb/s of bandwidth. According to Sapphire, it took more than ordinary reference parts [...]

The AMD Radeon HD 6950 has been out for nearly 7 months now, yet we are still seeing new releases with tweaks and minor changes. This fact really says something about AMD’s 6900 series. They are powerful cards capable of trading blows with NVIDIA’s lineup while staying affordable. Sapphire builds off of the solid base [...]

Are you looking for a new graphics card for your system? Are you unable to play some of your favorite games at a high resolution while still being able to keep the advanced settings high? Maybe you are behind the times and still running Microsoft DX10 or even DX9, while more and more games are [...]

The AMD Radeon 6950 is a card which has been available for nearly 7 months but that doesn’t seem to be stopping manufacturers from tweaking the design to suit their needs and one of the latest to do so (again) is Sapphire. In the form of a custom PCB, custom cooler model with a bundle [...]

MSI is paving the road again by releasing a graphics card with their own design; this time the Radeon HD 6950 gets armed with their own PCB, the new TwinFrozr III cooler and 2 GB of graphics memory. Yeah this card is bound to deliver some decent performance at that oh so important 250 EUR [...]

Today we shall review a trio from HIS based on the Radeon HD 6970, Radeon HD 6950 and Radeon HD 6850 GPUs. Some of these solutions copy reference design, but every card is nevertheless factory-overclocked and has a rather efficient cooler. As you can see, both Radeon HD 6950 and HD 6970 are copies of [...]

After a while all graphics cards seem to blend together. Most are just the reference design with a company logo on it. For the most part they all perform the same. That’s why it’s so refreshing when a company does something different with their cards. Sapphire, one of the largest manufacturers of graphics cards, introduces [...]

One of PowerColor’s various non-reference design graphics card lines, the Vortex Edition, made its debut in June 2010, with the PowerColor HD 5770 Vortex Edition. The selling point of Vortex is the cooler fan, which is user-adjustable to an extent. PowerColor decided to roll out another Vortex Edition graphics card any time soon, this time [...]

After it initial release, the AMD Radeon HD 6950 became the popular option that enthusiasts and gamers were considering the best bang for the buck if an upgrade to AMD’s latest generation of videocard was considered. Not only did it provide solid gaming performance with sufficient power to play even the newest games with above [...]