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Last year we looked at the Sapphire Radeon HD 5570 and postulated whether with its 400 shaders and half-height form factor it was fast enough to build a half-height HTPC that could rival the consoles for gaming performance.
Now however AMD have unleashed their latest ‘Northern Island’ based parts, the Radeon HD 6570 and 6670 – upping the number of shaders to 480 and Texture Units to 24 (from 20) while still both being half-height cards.
Anandtech have a full review which we recommend you check out if you’re interested in gaming on your HTPC….
6570 · 6670 · AMD · Anandtech · ATI · Gaming · Home Theatre PC · HTPC · Radeon
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Anandtech takes a look at the AMD Radeon HD 6450
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Integrated graphics solutions have made some strong gains in performance lately, closing the gap to the Radeon HD 5450 both in terms of gaming performance and media features.
To attempt to redress the balance AMD have launched the Radeon HD 6450, featuring the new Caico GPU and more than doubling up the memory bandwidth and shader performance compared to the older card. For the first time AMD’s entry-level card also has the full UVD3 video decode engine for post-processing effects and 3D, as well as DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI 1.4a support.
So is this the perfect HTPC card? You can read the full review over at Anandtech….
3D · 6450 · AMD · Anandtech · HDMI 1.4a · Radeon HD · Review · UVD3
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techPowerUp take on the HIS Radeon HD 5450
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techPowerUp have taken a look at the HIS Radeon HD 5450, younger brother to the Radeon HD 5570 we reviewed recently.
While the 5450 may be lacking in gaming performance in some cases less is more.
“Power consumption is about as low as it can get. Not much to say here, other than that it’s amazing and shows how much AMD’s GPU design team has done to achieve low power. HIS has done their part with the PCB design, too, which seems to be highly efficient as well.”AMD · ATI · Radeon · Review · techPowerUp
MSI have released a new microATX board based on the 890GX chipset, the 890GXM-G65.
The 890GXM-G65 supports processors based around AMD’s AM3 socket, with the Radeon HD 4290 graphics core and support for both USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps. It’s not cheap mind, with sites currently listing it around £130, twice the price of the H55 based ASRock H55M we reviewed yesterday.
890GX · 890GXM0-G65 · AM3 · AMD · mATX · microATX · Motherboard · MSI
The Tech Report has taken a look at the AMD 890GX chipset for Socket AM3 processors, along with a pair of motherboards from ASUS and Gigabyte.
The 890GX includes AMD’s new SB850 southbridge, and is the first chipset to natively support SATA3. Combined with a low power Athlon or Phenom II and an SSD could this chipset be the foundation of a quick and quiet HTPC set up?
Sapphire have unveiled their 785G based ITX board, the catchily named IPC-AM3DD785G.
The IPC-AM3DD785G combines AMD’s AM3 Athlon and Phenom processors with a power draw of up to 65W with the 785G chipset and a single PEG slot for those need a little extra graphical bite in their ITX systems. The use of the SB710 southbridge rules out features such as Core Unlocking however, but does still offer support for RAID 0, 1 and 10.
Sapphire bills the board as an Industrial design, but HDMI output from the integrated Radeon HD 4200 graphics means it should also be of interest to those building an AMD based HTPC. Looking at online pricing seems to be around the £100 mark in the UK.
