You think your home-built gaming PC is rocking with a dual-slot PCI-E graphics card wedged into your blinged-out case? You haven't seen anything yet. Asus just pulled the curtain off its newest piece of gaming indulgence, the Radeon HD 7970 DirectCU II TOP. It's the latest in the manufacturer's series of factory-overclocked cards, which include massive cooling systems designed to keep the GPU running at efficient combinations of speed, heat load and fan noise. This configuration has a new trick up its sleeve: a triple-slot configuration, where the combined circuit board and cooling unit take up the same amount of space as three normal-sized discrete cards.
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Asus unveils massive triple-slot Radeon HD 7970 DirectCU II TOP GPU
MAINGEAR outs AMD HD 7970 toting gaming PCs
AMD has launched a new video card, the AMD Radeon HD 7970, and performance PC specialist MAINGEAR has wasted no time in slotting it inside another beastly desktop. The MAINGEAR SHIFT and F131 each offer the new 28nm Radeon as an option, pairing it with up to Intel hexacore Core i7 3.3GHz processors and up to 32GB of DDR3 memory.
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AMD Radeon HD 7970: world’s first 28nm GPU
AMD has revealed its newest video card at CES 2012, the AMD Radeon HD 7970, using the the world's first 28nm GPU and Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. Packing 3GB of DDR5 video memory, two DVI outputs, two Mini-DisplayPorts and a single HDMI, the Radeon HD 7970 can be combined in up to quad-card CrossFireX setups for frankly ridiculous gaming performance.
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AMD Radeon HD 7970 Review round-up: fast and quiet
Earlier today AMD announced their new flagship Radeon HD 7970 graphics card, and while it wont hit the public shelves until mid January -- and for a hefty $549 price tag we are already seeing reviews galore from the PC crowd and figured we'd round them up. What we are hoping for is just what AMD is claiming: "the fastest single-GPU card in the world". Head on down past the break to see what everyone thought -- and if that claim holds true.
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Lenovo C325 all-in-one PC packs multitouch
Lenovo has outed its latest all-in-one PC, the Lenovo C325, offering a 20-inch 1600 x 900 display, AMD E450 processor and multitouch support. Priced from $699, the C325 packs AMD Radeon HD 6320 graphics along with up to 8GB of DDR3 memory and up to 1TB of storage, along with a DVD burner and SDXC memory card slot.
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New Apple iMac: Thunderbolt, Sandy Bridge and FaceTime HD
Apple has unveiled its new iMac range, and as expected the all-in-one desktops have been upgraded with Intel’s 2011 Sandy Bridge quad-core processors, new graphics and Thunderbolt connectivity. The new iMacs come in the same 21.5-inch and 27-inch versions, with the entry-level $1,199 21.5-inch model having a 2.5GHz quad-core Core i5 processor, AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics and a 500GB hard-drive. At the other end there’s the $1,999 27-inch machine with a 3.1GHz quad-core Core i5 processor, Radeon HD 6970M graphics and 1TB of storage. Optional is a $200 quad-core Intel Core i7 processor upgrade on select models, running at up to 3.4GHz.
AMD Radeon HD 6790 tipped to bring mid-range battle to GeForce GTX 550 Ti
AMD may have got a spanking with NVIDIA's GTX 590 - on paper at least - eclipsing their own Radeon HD 6990, but the company isn't wasting time weeping and applying cooling balm. Instead it's apparently readying the AMD Radeon HD 6790, according to NordicHardware, set to take on NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 550 Ti in the lucrative mid-range segment, with a Barts LE core based on the GPUs used in the Radeon HD 6800 series.
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Gateway NV Series pack AMD E-350 and C-50 Fusion APUs
AMD's new APU-based Fusion processors continue to score design wins, with Gateway the latest to slot the chips - along with the Radeon GPUs - into their notebooks. The Gateway NV51B05u leads the new NV Series, complete with AMD's E-350 processor and Radeon HD 6310 graphics, WiFi b/g/n, HDMI with Full HD 1080p output support, and a 15.6-inch 1366 x 768 display.
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AMD 2012 mobile GPU roadmap leaks: 28nm Radeon HD 7000M
Details of AMD's 28nm mobile GPU roadmap have leaked, with four families of Radeon HD 7000M graphics chips specified for 2012. According to the document, passed to Turkish site Donanimhaber, AMD is readying mainstream, performance and gaming chips for notebook use: Thames, Chelsea, Heathrow and Wimbledon.
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ASUS Eee PC 1015B and 1215B AMD Fusion netbooks official
ASUS has officially confirmed its two new AMD Fusion APU-based netbooks, the 10.1-inch Eee PC 1015B and the 12.1-inch Eee PC 1215B. The 1015B can be spec'd with either AMD's 1.2GHz single-core C30 or 1GHz dual-core C50, along with Radeon HD 6250 graphics, while the 1215B throws the 1.6GHz dual-core E350 into the mixture with a choice of Radeon HD 6310 graphics.
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AMD Radeon HD 6990 official: World’s fastest graphics card
We've been tracking AMD's beastly Radeon HD 6990 for a few months now, and the company has finally seen fit to make it official. Billed as the world's fastest graphics card, the AMD Radeon HD 6990 packs 3,072 Stream Processors, 64 ROPs and 4GB of GDDR5 memory, together good for a borderline-ridiculous 11,865 score in 3DMark11.
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Zotac unveils new AD02 and AD02 Plus nettops with AMD hardware inside
Zotac has unveiled a pair of new nettops today that include the new Zbox AD02 and AD02 Plus offerings. Both of the machines run the AMD Brazos platform inside that is combined with the E350 dual-core APU. The machines also have 2GB of DDR3 RAM and have graphics that support DirectX 11 for entertainment content and good multimedia playback.
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