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In the third installment of our Budget Gamers’ GPU series we have another little gem from Sapphire. This is the HD4830 512MB (DDR3), this card boast almost the same specs as the HD4850 but with a sub $100 price tag. Will this card have the power to find a home in an enthusiasts system?
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Not that long ago we took a look at Sapphire’s Radeon HD4550. This turned out to be a nice entry level GPU that would fit perfectly in any HTPC system. Now we have the 4550’s slightly bigger bother the Radeon HD4650 (Over Clocked Edition). Just what will the extra 100 points in the name get [...]

Sapphire is a well known name in the world of ATi add-in graphics cards. They have been providing enthusiast, gamers and entry-level users for some time. Recently we took a look at Sapphire’s 4550 an entry level GPU that fits perfectly into an HTPC or a business system. Today, however, we are getting our hands [...]

Sapphire Technology (from this point forward called Sapphire) is a company with a reputation for making high quality ATi (AMD) based products, from their Toxic line of enthusiast cards to their mainboards and multimedia devices. While we have not had much to do with them, we have reviewed one of their products in the past. [...]

Over the last few years the market has been inundated with more and more GPU releases. In a ridiculous effort to keep to an arbitrary two year refresh cycle both nVidia and ATi (AMD) have been pushing out one refresh after the other. These newer GPUs really offer very little other than the ability to [...]

Asus has been known for years for their motherboards.  Over the past few years they have really made a push on the graphics card market. Unlike many other companies they have also decided to make graphics cards from ATI and Nvidia; rather then just siding with one chipset.  Today we have a slightly unusual video [...]

OCZ, they’re the guys that make memory right? Well, you’re half right. Although they started out just making memory modules, OCZ have diversified their product line over the years to include flash-based memory modules, processor heat sinks, and even gaming mice!

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The 8800GTX has been on the streets for a while now, and many of you may have read multiple reviews about this monster of a card. Well Planetx64 has not ignored the 8800GTX, in fact we have had one in the lab [...]

AMD-ATI today announced the availability of it’s next generation of video graphics cards: the Radeon HD 2000 series. Encompassing a complete line of graphics cards from mobile to mainstream to enthusiast, ATI brings it’s new main guns online. PlanetX64 was fortunate enough to have participated in the press events leading up to this launch and [...]