Mass Effect 3 PC Review |
Introduction
Since 2007, the first Mass Effect was introduced, the game was well received with players thanks to its epic story, abundant characters, glitz scientific plots and conflict topic. Many people consider Mass Effect is just like some big scientific game, such as Star War and Star Trek.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE Review |
Introduction
At the beginning of the year, AMD made use of it brand-new GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture to step into graphics market, the Radeon HD 7700 series targeting main-stream market also arrived. As its competitor, NVIDIA is preparing for Kepler, during the process a new model GTX 560 SE emerged to counter AMD Radeon HD 7770.
MSI Z77A-GD55 and ONDA Z77 Magic Motherboard Review |
Z77-Intel Native USB 3.0 Support
When it refers to Intel product update, Tick-Tock strategy always comes to our mind. This time it’s turn for Ivy Bridge and 7-series motherboards.
AMD Radeon HD 7750 Graphics Card Review |
Introduction
The successor of Radeon HD 6750: Radeon HD 7750
There are two models in AMD Radeon HD 7700 series, they are Radeon HD 7770 and Radeon HD 7750, we had conducted test on the former. Judged from the model number, Radeon HD 7750 obviously with less stream processors is used to replace Radeon HD 6750.
Arctic Accelero Xtreme 7970 VGA Cooler Review |
Accelero Xtreme 7970 Cooler Previewed
The special Tahiti GPU design of AMD Radeon HD 7970 makes lots of third-party coolers unable for use, additionally the graphics card is highly popular, various cooling manufacturers have tried great means to introduce their relative products to seize the market.
Prolimatech MK-26 VGA Cooler Review |
Prolimatech MK-26 VGA cooler is especially designed for AMD’s flagship Radeon HD 7970, it measures 245mm*100*42mm, weights 530g, boasts six 6mm heatpipes, 70 aluminum fins covering cooling area of 3500cm2.
Intel Quad-Core Core i7-3820 Processor Review |
Introduction
Just a week ago, Intel officially launched its Core i7-3820 Sandy Bridge-E processor, the processor is the first quad-core model in LGA2011 platform, and it’s priced as low as US$294. We have got the CPU and did a small test. As its specs and pricing are close to that of Core i7-2600K, so we chose the latter for comparison. (All the images could be clicked to large ones.)
Review for DeepCool Gamer Storm Assassin CPU Cooler |
Introduction
Firstly exposed in CeBIT 2011, DeepCool Gamer Storm Assassin CPU Cooler and then was shown off in Computex 2011, while now the cooler finally officially meet with players. It’s the second model in Gamer Storm series, and the first model Dracula has been well received in the market, so we also have high expectation towards "Assassin".
Analysis for Main Controller of Mainstream SSDs |
Introduction
As we all know, main controller is the most crucial chip to master the speed of SSDs. Nowadays there are various kinds of SSD controllers in the market. Different from two main groups——ToggleDDR and ONFI in flash memory, a variety of controller models come with even the same SSD manufactures. Many players are likely to be confused about these controllers. And therefore, we have gathered some information on controllers of mainstream SSDs, in order to make us have a better understanding of them.
The Story between Voltage and Power Consumption in HD 7970 |
MSI R7970 graphics card
This test is related with the review of HD 7950, as we changed test platform when doing power consumption test, so we had to retest it. At that time, though frequency and performance of HD 7950 is close to that of HD 7970, but the former featured much lower power consumption. In spite of four CUs disabled, it’s impossible to get such a big change, what happened with it?
AMD Radeon HD 7900 Real-Time Leo Demo Test |
New Partner of HD 7900——Leo Demo
When there comes with new architecture-based GPU, AMD and NVIDIA always release some demos. Different from gaming trial-play demo, such demos are used to display the power of new architecture technology. So they’re not so playable, but image effect generally is surprising, through which development of 3D technology could be traced.
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Graphics Card Review |
HD 7950 Architecture & Specs Previewed
We have just come back from Chinese new year holiday, many people may be still lost in happy festival atmosphere. However, for AMD new war will begin again, the second Radeon HD 7900 series graphics card——HD 7950 based on GCN(Graphics Core Next) architecture launched, the company has introduced two heavyweight products at the beginning/end of in the same month, January 2012 is bound to be the harvest time for the company.
Small Review for Radeon HD 7950 Surfaced |
The launch day of Radeon HD 7950 is drawing near, unexpectedly an "early review" for the graphics card has appeared, which was let out by a Chinese user in tieba baidu.
Test for AMD Bulldozer Hotfixes from Microsoft |
AMD Bulldozer architecture design was somewhat different from than in the current mainstream X86, it’s neither CMP (Chip MultiProcessors) nor SMT (Simultaneous Multithreading), but CMT (Cluster Multithreading) design. The architecture is innovative, however, innovation always comes with cost, let’s not speak of the performance capability, the coordination between software and application is a tricky issue.
PCI-E 3.0 vs PCI-E 2.0 Test |
PCI-E 3.0: Higher Speed, Lower Latencies
Compared with the endangered PCI, PCI-E is full of vigor, which not only takes up the position tightly in system internal data transmission standard, but also has a bright future, as PCI-SIG is now reading for PCI-E 4.0, after all the current mainstream specification is just PCI-E 2.0.
