Water cooled Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics on 21. Mar, 2008 | No Comments
A lot of manufacturers of graphics boards are pushing their high ended cards to the water-cooled approach. Sapphires 3870 GPU uses just that. Sapphire uses the ATOMIC water-cooling kit for their means to cooling. By using a water-cooling unit the GPU and memory temperatures are lowered considerably.
Tests have shown that the card on idle [...]
The Nvidia 9800 x2
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics on 19. Mar, 2008 | No Comments
So we have yet again a new leader in the constant battle of the graphics cards. Who may you ask? Nvidia already released their 9600 X2 graphic boards which weighted in around the main stream budget price bracket. You can imagine the processor and memory clock speeds won’t be as fast as say your enthusiast [...]
Quad Core GPU?
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics on 18. Mar, 2008 | No Comments
I’m sure you are all aware that the latest contenders in the Graphics market have to be ATI and Nvidia. Nvidia have there 9800GX2 Graphics module which is basically two PCBs glued together how original! :/. ATIs idea of a dual processing graphics board is totally different, we have the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2. [...]
Welcome Viewers
Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 17. Mar, 2008 | No Comments
I’d like to welcome all you viewers to Top Spec. Over the next couple of months I’m hoping to give YOU yes YOU the viewer a comprehensive look on all the latest hardware out there! Over the up-coming months I will be posting messages based on all the latest architecture from C.P.U’s, Motherboards and [...]
