Spring officially begins this weekend!
Woot! For my part, I'm ready for it. Enough cold weather,
snow and drama here in Virginia to last several winters. Let's
check the news bucket and see what's what.
Before we jump into the VGA line up for
the day, we have
Pro-Clockers with coverage of the
NZXT Tempest Evo Case.
Announcing the
Tempest EVO, a sleek, all black, steel mid tower gaming chassis.
Building off of the original Tempest's award winning design, the EVO
brings advanced cooling power, expandability, and cable management. The
Tempest EVO maximizes airflow circulation with Dual 120mm intake, dual
140mm top exhaust, side 120mm, and a rear 120mm fan. NZXT even
redesigned the fan blade design so they effectively deliver more air at
lower noise levels.
HIS Radeon 5830 Turbo action posted up at
Viper Lair for
you MW2 fans. You gotta love that bundle!
HIS
have sent over their Platinum package HIS 5830 Turbo, supplied with
extra software, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (a $60 game) and it comes
pre-overclocked above the recommended AMD specs. The HIS 5830 Turbo also
sports their iCooler cooling setup which we really liked on the 4xxx HIS
cards we reviewed a while back, so let's open the box shall we?
For my part, I'm
a big fan of the bargain priced pixel killing HD 5770. MSI has put
some extra cooling on their version.
Bjorn3D has a go
with the
MSI
R5770 Hawk. Check it.
Today we will be looking at one of their mid range cards, the R5770
HAWK, targeted for people on a budget looking to get the most for the
money. MSI has decided to improve on the already great 5770 with
improved 7+1 phase PWM and overvoltage options. The even included an
aftermarket twin frozr cooler.
Speaking of the HD 5770,
Tweaktown shows
off a little
HIS Radeon HD 5770 action for you.
The card to arrive was a HD 5770; it
wasn't a Turbo nor an IceQ version and since I had already reviewed two
HD 5770s from HIS, I figured I was probably going to be dealing with a
card that I'd already seen. When I opened it up, though, I found a new
fan design that looked pretty cool.
Scaling us back a hair is the more price
conscious
XFX Radeon HD 5670. Targeting folks wanting Direct X11 and
Eyefinity functionality, does it hit its mark? Ask
Overclock3D.
Even amongst the usual competitors, XFX holds a major advantage in that
it's cooling solution is single slot, thus allowing it to fit in smaller
cases. Finally, it should also be mentioned once more that the graphics
card's Multi-Monitor support is a feature that puts it well ahead of
it's competition from team green.
