Turn your Radeon 6950 into a Radeon 6970

ITShootout provides a step by step visual guide on how to unlock your Radeon HD6950's latent shaders and turn it into a fully fledged Radeon HD6970 - a card costing almost twice as much. ... More

(Posted by: Ian Jackson on 2011-03-26)

ASUS EAH6870 1GB Video Card Review

The Radeon HD 6870, contrary to its somewhat confusing name, is not the successor to the Radeon 5870. Instead, it acts as an almost direct replacement for the Radeon 5850, both in terms of performance and in price. Today we are looking at the Asus...... More

(Posted by: Ian Jackson on 2011-03-23)

ZOTAC GTX480 Review

The GTX 480 is late. The GTX 480 is hot. Both of these facts have now been established by both ourselves and a gazillion other review sites. We will therefore not dwell upon these factors in this review of the first Fermi card from Zotac to enter...... More

(Posted by: Ian Jackson on 2010-06-07)

Asus GTX 480 1.5GB vs Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD 5870 2GB

Asus is one of the first manufacturers to actually have GeForce GTX 480s available to buy (at least intermittently), so we were delighted when the firm's Voltage Tweak edition of the card arrived in the ITShootOut.com office. This happened to...... More

(Posted by: Ian Jackson on 2010-05-12)

Asus Radeon EAH 5870 1GB Video Card Review

Aside from cost and availability there is little to differentiate one Radeon 5870 from another. They all use the same Batmobile-inspired cooler; offer almost the same bundle and identical clock speeds. Asus is aiming to change that by offering a...... More

(Posted by: Ian Jackson on 2010-03-19)

HIS X1800GTO IceQ3 Turbo 256MB Video Card Review

The X1800GTO is ATi’s recent answer to the rather excellent nVIDIA 7600GT in the upper mid-range. As with its competition, the X1800GTO is a 12 pixel pipeline product, but has the advantage of a full 256 bit memory interface. Today we are looking...... More

(Posted by: Ben on 2006-06-06)

Asus EN7600GT Silent 256MB Review

The nVIDIA 7600GT has been almost universally praised as one of the best mid-ranged video cards out there right now, and a very worthy successor to the fantastic 6600GT, a solution that to this day refuses to die. One of the criticisms levelled...... More

(Posted by: Ben on 2006-05-03)

Asus EAX1900XTX 512MB Review

The X1900XTX is currently the king of the hill when it comes to high end video performance. We test Asus's varient against something you high end gamers may be thinking of upgrading from - the 7800GTX 256MB. The difference in performance may shock...... More

(Posted by: Ben on 2006-04-24)

HIS X1600XT IceQ Turbo 256MB Review

The X1600XT is the latest entrant into ATi’s mid-ranged product line up, and boasts a number of enhancements in feature set over the previous generation. Shader model 3.0 has finally been added, and the parts are built on a new TSMC 90nm process,...... More

(Posted by: Ben on 2006-02-07)

HIS X800GT IceQ II and X800 GTO IceQ II Review

Both of the cards on show today are the iTurbo models, which means that you have manufacturer-supported overclocking via HIS’s iTurbo overclocking utility. Many people are unsure about overclocking, since you can invalidate the warranty or cause...... More

(Posted by: Ben on 2005-11-10)

HIS Excalibur Radeon X850 XT iTurbo and X850XT Platinum Review

Today we are looking at the X850 AGP cards from HIS, the X850 XT Platinum edition, and the X850 XT iTurbo. Prior to now, the X850 was PCI-E exclusive, but you can now get AGP versions from a number of firms. Both feature the HIS innovative IceQ...... More

(Posted by: Ben on 2005-07-19)

HIS X700 Pro IceQ II 256MB Graphics Card Review

The X700 Pro is ATi's mid ranged PCI-Express solution, falling somewhere in between the entry level X300 series and the top of the range X800 series. Unlike previous mid ranged solutions, the X700 is actually a scaled down version of their...... More

(Posted by: Ben on 2005-05-17)

HIS Excalibur X850 XT PE IceQ II 256MB Review

The X850 is ATi's latest and greatest graphics chipset, and one that differs from the previous top-of-the-range card, the X800XT PE, in that it uses the new PCI-Express slot rather than AGP. With the release of SLI technology from nVidia, ATi has...... More

(Posted by: Ben on 2005-04-11)

Asus Extreme AX800XT-PE Review

In no doubt, Asus is one of the most trusted and reliable hardware manufacturer in the world. Time in time again, we see solid motherboards and graphic cards that have an amazing overclocking ability. Today, we will be looking at Asus' Extreme...... More

(Posted by: Xurrogate on 2005-03-27)