Euro-based graphics company Club 3D has just released their own build based on ATI’s HD 4890 graphics processor. Of course, the HD 4890 itself has been out for quite some time now, but it’s still one of the most powerful gaming graphics cards on the planet at the moment. Nothing much has been changed over ATI’s reference model except for the cooling chamber’s design, but it does feature an active fansink kit for cooling.
With the advent of bigger, better, and faster graphics cards to handle, well, bigger, better, and more demanding games, cooling has become quite an issue. PC accessory manufacturer Thermaltake has recently come out with an aftermarket VGA cooler to help with heat issues on the newest graphics cards from Nvidia and ATI.
In a world full of bigger and faster graphics cards, Galaxy’s new release can be refreshing news for people who happen to own small form-factor PCs. Fitting a high-powered dual-slot graphics card can be a pain on a compact chassis, and if you ever manage to fit them in, finding out if your mini power supply unit can handle the load is another gamble altogether. Galaxy’s new 9600GT Low Power graphics card, based (obviously) on Nvidia’s midrange 9600GT GPU, features a compact design, plus a low-power requirement that allows you to run it without having to connect a separate 6-pin auxillary power source.
Zotac’s newest Nvidia ION-based package isn’t a ready-to-use computer, but they do offer builders a single platform to build a mini-HTPC around. (more…)
Although the feat has already been made possible before (by manufacturers and aftermarket tweaking), AMD has officially broken the 1GHz barrier by offering a factory-overclocked version of the ATI Radeon HD 4890. (more…)
