AMD Expects Beta Eyefinity Fix in January
The frame pacing issue has been covered at our website for almost a year now. It stems from the original "microstutter" problem which dates back over a year before we could quantify…
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AMD wants to set the record straight on its future GPU strategy
Remember that story we posted last week and then discussed on the podcast about AMD not releasing any new GPUs in 2013? Today we had a call with AMD...
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Podcast #238 – Thinkpad Tablet 2, Raspberry Pi, Nonvolatile DIMMS and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #238 - 02/14/2013 Join us this week as we discuss the Thinkpad Tablet 2, Raspberry Pi, Nonvolatile DIMMS and more! You can subscribe to us through...
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PlayStation 4 (PS4) Orbis Hardware Specifications – AMD APU or Discrete?
Earlier today a report from Kotaku.com posted some details about the upcoming PlayStation console, code named Orbis and sometimes just called the PS4. Kotaku author Luke Plunkett got the...
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Here’s one of those non-existant HD 7990’s for you
PowerColor ignored the claims that there would be no dual GPU HD 7990 and created the DEVIL13, with two southern island GPUs on a single PCB. Both GPUs run at the standard…
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May it truly be the end of our graphics card drought
Enthusiasts were offered a bit of hope this morning with news from DigiTimes that more capacity at TSMC will be available for AMD and NVIDIA which would mean more dies being made…
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AMD Three for Free promo: HD 7900 Price drop & free games
AMD, for a limited time and while supplies last, will bundle three games with the purchase of a Radeon HD 7900 Series graphics card. The qualifying cards, the Radeon HD 7950 (now…
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TSMC’s 28nm process is going to be around for the long haul
TSMC's 28nm process has been in the news for a long time, sometimes this was a good thing but more often it was not. Back in May of 2009 the first…
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Graphics Core Next versus The Penguin
After a delay of several weeks AMD has finally released a hot fix for Linux to allow for the usage of their new generation of video cards but they've not provided updates that…
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Pitcairn is finally here, low on power and high on performance per dollar
To give the end of the story away at the beginning, sometime around March 19th you should be able to find an HD 7870 for about $350 and an HD 7850 for around…
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AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB and HD 7850 2GB Pitcairn Review
When we went to Austin, Texas to sit with AMD and learn about the Radeon HD 7900 series of cards for the first time, an interesting thing happened. While the…
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Meet the new mid-range; AMD’s HD7770 and HD7750
The days of the HD 6870 are numbered as today we see the arrival of the new sub-$200 GPUs from AMD, the HD7770 and HD7750. The stock HD 7770 run at 1GHz…
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AMD Radeon HD 7770 and 7750 Cape Verde GPU Review
When AMD first started to talk to me about the upcoming Southern Islands GPUs they tried to warn me. Really they did. "Be prepared for just an onslaught of card…
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AMD Verdetrol 1GHz Prescription Pills Arrive at PC Perspective
Working from home comes with a host of stereotypes and assumptions that the rest of world places on people like myself. I am often accused of working in my underwear, not showering through…
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Faster than a speeding GTX 580; the HD7950 arrives
A smattering of reviews of the newly released HD7950 have arrived to the web as the card that many enthusiasts have been waiting for finally arrives. The card does not differ significantly…
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AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB Graphics Card Review
It has been just over a month since we first got our hands on the AMD Southern Islands architecture in the form of the Radeon HD 7970 3GB graphics card. It...
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HD7970 from ASUS and XFX, who offers the most impressive card?
[H]ard|OCP recently came out with two HD7970 reviews, one made by ASUS and one by XFX. The ASUS Radeon HD 7970 is currently one of the least expensive choices at $559...
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AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB Cards In Stock – For Now
If you have been looking for a Radeon HD 7970 graphics card since its official release on January 9th and our review on December 22nd, then you better hurry up,...
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