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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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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
Aria have a couple interesting offers today.
First up is the Compro VideoMate S350 PCI Digital Satellite TV Tuner, a DVB-S Freesat tuner, for £23.49. Perfect for the Windows 7 Media Center user with a satellite dish but no Sky subscription.
Next is the XFX ATI Radeon HD 4550, the predecessor to the Radeon HD 5570 we looked at recently. Again this is just £23.49.
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Sapphire Radeon HD 5570 – Turning the HTPC into a viable gaming device?
No comments · Posted by James Thorburn in Hardware
Apologies for the lack of updates over the last week, work and life took priority for a few days.
We have however used the time to get another article ready, a review of the Sapphire Radeon HD 5570 and a look into whether it can turn the HTPC into a competitive gaming system.
Please check it out and we’d love to hear your thoughts.
5570 · Articles · ATI · Gaming · HD 5570 · Home Theatre PC · HTPC · Radeon · Review
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Fudzilla takes a look at Shuttle’s new XPC’s
No comments · Posted by James Thorburn in Hardware
We reported on the launch of Shuttle’s SG41J1 a couple weeks ago, and now Fudzilla brings news from CeBIT of the rest of the J-series line.
It looks as if Shuttle will be offering each system, the G41 SG41J1, H55 based SH55J2, and range topping X58 equipped SX58J3 as both barebone chassis’s and complete systems – with the SX58J3 based J3 5800P adding in a Core i7 920, 4GB DDR3-1066 and a Radeon HD 5770 to make a pretty powerful little system.
It’ll certainly be interesting to see how Shuttle’s pricing compares to previous generation XPC’s as these have the potential to be kick-ass HTPC or gaming systems!
Core 2 · Core i3 · Core i7 · Gaming · HTPC · Radeon · SFF · Shuttle · XPC
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.
