ATI’s Radeon HD5970 Hemlock - DirectX 11, lots-o-cores, multiple displays, over-clockable
Posted by Jon Peddie on November 24th 2009 | Permalink
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Number five in its series of new AIBs, ATI as promised delivered the dual chip HD5970 Radeon board. It’s killer fast, easy on the power supply and pocketbook, and has bonuses like multi-display output and over clocking tools. The board comes with 2GB of DDR5, one each for each GPU. The GPUs get to the PCIe lanes via a gen2 PLX PCIe bridge chip. We ran a series of tests on the board in Windows 7 and the results were very impressive—without over-clocking. ATI has a lot of headroom in the RV870 Evergreen GPU, and the two of them on the…
Overclocking for Dummies
Posted by Jon Peddie on November 25th 2010 | Permalink
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Hardware Review
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I have always been reticent to mess with overclocking (OC) processors for fear of ruining something and reduced stability. However since I have separated my business and benchmarking computers the stability part of the equation is not as important anymore. After reading an article in PC Aviator, the author discloses that he has been overclocking CPUs for many years and he has never actually hurt a chip. Blue Screens, yes he gets those when the OC is too aggressive but it’s always as simple as tuning it down in the BIOS until the system runs stably. We cannot officially recommend overclocking…
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