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Friday March 19th 2010 - dean

TGIF Edition

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.


Turn nine.

Zaward Vapor 120 CPU Cooler at Overclockers Online.

SteelSeries Siberia v2 Headset at Elite Bastards.

Antec CP-850 850W PSU at Think Computers.

Corsair TX950 PSU at R&B Mods.

Nexus NX-6000 R3 630W PSU at Technic3D.

 

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