HIS Radeon HD 5850 1GB Video Card

With word really beginning to get around that the new GT 300 based NVIDIA cards aren't going to be seen this year, it really gives AMD a chance to cement its HD 5000 series cards into the market. The latest HD 5000 series card to make its way into our labs is the HD 5850 and comes from HIS. We've already had a look at the model before and we've been pretty happy with what ATI has done with the card. Today we'll be seeing what HIS have done to the bundle and card to see if there's anything...

Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X 1GB video card review

While the new, custom-built cooling solution is what we're really getting excited about here, Sapphire's Vapor-X board also features increases to both core and memory clocks - This leaves us with an out of the box core clock speed here of 870MHz (a 20MHz increase over reference clocks), while the board's memory gets a more notable 50MHz boost up to 1250MHz. Naturally, as soon as we take a look at the Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X, that vapour chamber cooling solution stands out on account of its...