Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB Overclocking Tests

We most always start articles like this one the same way. It tends to start with something along the lines of “why would you bother overclocking something that is already so fast?” - There's always a simple answer; because we can. With the recent launch of the card, however, we've seen a few people look at overclocking and at the moment we're a bit limited when it comes to utilities. When it comes to VGA overclocking our instrument of choice tends to be Rivatuner. At the time of writing...

Lapping the CPU IHS

Lapping an IHS on a CPU is not as hard as most think. It does not require hours of work, and there is none of this, 'You have to do this way, and only this way for perfect results.' Contrary to popular belief lapping the IHS can be done in a matter of minutes and still get a seriously high polish out of it. Read...

3DMark record broken halfway through world’s largest overclocking competition

SARATOGA, CA – June 2, 2009 – Futuremark® Corporation today released winners’ details from the first two weeks of their Lords of Overclocking competition and revealed that halfway through the four week contest the 3DMark06 world record has already fallen twice. Contest: http://www.futuremark.com/lords Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/YouGamerGirl Overclockers are competing to achieve the highest score with 3DMark06, a benchmarking program from Futuremark that measures the 3D gaming...

Monday Reading 18th of May!

This week surley has been a busy one, and now we bring you some great reviews from our partners! Components OCZ 6GB Kit DDR3 1600 CL6 Platinum Series Memory Review at Technic3D Sparkle Calibre 9800 GTX+ Video Card Review at TechwareLabs Western Digital VelociRaptor at InsideHW Mushkin Redline XP3-12800 6 GB Kit at techPowerUp ASUS ENGTX260 Matrix GeForce GTX 260 at BmR Phenom II Processors and DDR3 Memory at iXBT Labs 4-Way SSD Round-Up Redux, OCZ, Corsair, Kingston,...

Learn how to overclock the Radeon HD 4770

Our friends at Guru3D have written a great article on how to overclock the new ATi Radeon HD 4770. This is a great performing card that packs a huge punch for its small price, but as we all want to get more and more out of our computers, overclocking can prove great results. With only a few minutes worth of effort Guru3D report up to 10-20 percent additional performance from this card, and of course this increase is totally free! Give it a shot and let us know how it goes for you. Click...

Gigabyte GO OC 2009 Coverage!!

"We just got back from Thailand, where GIGABYTE held the GO OC 2009 Asia Regional final, at the massive Pantip Plaza computer market complex in busy old Bangkok over the past weekend. Top overclockers from Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam attended the event, each attempting to make it to the world final in Taiwan in June during Computex. We had a fantastic time in Thailand thanks to GIGABYTE and all of the...