Posts Tagged “Overclocking”

Make some room in the trophy case!

Asus and AMD shatter world records Recently, one of our fantastic technology partners informed us that renowned overclockers, Elmor and Kinc, had set new world records in 3DMark Vantage using variants of our own award-winning ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 and HD 5970 graphics cards.  Asus had provided the elite overclocking team with the Asus Radeon™ [...]

ATI Catalyst™ 10.2 Driver – What’s New?

It’s that time again for the ATI Catalyst™ driver update!  We have been getting great comments and feedback from the community because of this blog site.  Please continue to send us your feedback as we do review them all*. *IF you are having technical issues with the ATI Catalyst driver, or your graphics card please [...]

ATI Radeon HD 5970 – The World’s Fastest Graphics Card

We recently announced the ATI Radeon™ HD 5970, the fastest graphics card on the planet1. It’s been an exciting few months with our launch of the first DirectX 11 capable graphics cards, still the only cards in the world to support gaming over three monitors enabled with ATI Eyefinity Technology. This time around, we’re spicing [...]

AREA 64 Presents: The TWKR…

When fast just isn’t fast enough!  What do you get when you cross extreme engineering with extreme overclockability? You get an AMD TWKR CPU. **WARNING: Extreme overclocking is an activity that should be carried out only by experts, using expert tools in a safe and secure environment. Use of extreme cooling methods and materials, including [...]

Finding the processor that fits you – maybe dual core is jusssttt riiight

Look carefully at these 2 processors before buying anything else!  The mainstream CPU market is awfully crowded these days, a full line-up of model numbers from AMD and a further full line-up of confusing model numbers from Intel.  Is the C2D E8600 better than a C2Q 8200, what about an i7920, is a 920 better [...]

Overclocking 101 with the AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition processor

Breaking it down with Pete Hardman in our secret lab  Does your PC have overclock potential?  Our new AMD PhenomTM II processors certainly do, and to showcase this I ventured over to our super secret lab buried deep inside the bowels of our Austin campus to prove the point! Picture long hallways of unmarked doors, [...]

The Inside Scoop on Corsair’s Andy Paul and DDR3

Memory Guru and owner/founder of Corsair Andy Paul on the PC Industry The PC industry has many cool companies, lots of innovations and a ton of great people! One such company is Corsair, which I have worked with for many years. At their helm a very interesting, some say eccentric and down to earth personality [...]

ATI Catalyst™ 9.4 Driver – Everything you want to know

Do you regularly update your graphics drivers?   Hot on the heels of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4890 launch complete with astounding reception from journalists, customers, gamers and winning over 40 awards to date, Terry Makedon and his team have a Catalyst update to launch as well!  The ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 driver was only released 22 days [...]

Hitting the Overclocking Stratosphere in Austin!

Have you ever wondered just how much performance you can get from your current PC? Or, how much do you need to spend on a CPU vs. GPU? Or, do large containers of Liquid Nitrogen spewing vapour make your neighbours nervous? At AMD HQ in Austin, TX in November we invited some of the top [...]