A lot has been happening the past few months in the chip manufacturing business. While on one hand Intel’s sales have been soaring, the tiny rival AMD has been struggling. Not many years ago, Intel was troubled at the rate which AMD was eating into it’s profits. Today, Things are a bit different. Intel still [...]
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ATI Radeon HD 4870 x2
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About: Conceived out of two Radeon HD 4870 GPU cores on a single PCB, the HD 4870 x2 is a monster to be sure. It features 1600 SPs (800 from each 4870), and features an unheard 2 GB of GDDR5 memory that operates at a whopping 3600 MHz. The phrase gross overkill comes to mind. [...]
Cooler Master Hyper 212
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The efficiency of a CPU cooler depends on the design of the heat sink, type of fan and materials used. The Hyper 212 is designed like a tower and stands a whopping 160mm tall. The heat sink has two stacks of aluminum fins with four copper heat pipes running through each of them. The heat [...]