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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580, here it is!

Posted on November 12, 2010, 8:07 am in Reviews, Video Card, Video Card

NVIDIA just released their latest video card. This card uses redesigned GF 100 chip that used on GTX 480, the new GF 110 GPU. NVIDIA had listened to people who complain about super power hungry and very hot temperature in their GTX 480. GeForce GTX 580 will be the next NVIDIA flagship on high end video cards.

On performance, there is an improvement of 20% to GTX 480, makes it the fastest single GPU card in the planet (12/11/2010). In some DirectX 11 games, it even beats AMD dual GPU card HD 5970.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Specification

	Graphics Card	GTX 580
Processing Units	Graphics Processing Clusters	4
	Streaming Multiprocessors	16
	CUDA Cores	512
	Texture Units	64
	ROP Units	48
Clock Speeds	Graphics Clock (Fixed Function Units)	772 MHz
	Processor Clock (CUDA Cores)	1544 MHz
	Memory Clock (Clock rate / Data rate)	2008 MHz
Memory	L2 Cache Size	768KB
	Total Video Memory	1536 MB GDDR5
	Memory Interface	384-bit
	Total Memory Bandwidth	192.4 GB/s
Fillrate	Texture Filtering Rate (Bilinear)	49.4 GigaTexels/sec
Physical & Thermal	Fabrication Process	40 nm
	Transistor Count	3 Billion
	Connectors	2 x Dual-Link DVI-I 1 x Mini HDMI
	Form Factor	Dual Slot
	Power Connectors	1×6 pin and 1x 8 pin
	Recommended Power Supply	600 Watts
	Thermal Design Power (TDP)1	244 Watts
	Thermal Threshold	97 C

AMD ATI Radeon HD 4670 vs HD 5670

Posted on May 6, 2010, 4:23 am in Video Card, Video Card

The battle of older and younger brother. In this review we will doing some test on 2 different generation video cards. HD 4670 came from Radeon 4000-series, which released on Q4 2008, and HD 5670 is on AMD’s latest GPU series, 5000-series. With different technology and fabrication, its almost sure that the Radeon HD 5670 can easily beat the older Radeon HD 4670.

This is the full specification,

Video Card:	Radeon HD 5670	Radeon HD 4670
GPU:	Redwood	RV730
Release Date:	14/01/2010	10/09/2008
Interface:	PCI-E 2.0 x16	PCI-E 2.0 x16
Core Clock:	775 MHz	750 MHz
Memory Clock:	2000 MHz (4000 DDR)	1000 MHz (2000 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth:	64 GB/sec	32 GB/sec
Pixel Fill Rate:	6200 MPixels/sec	6000 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate:	15500 MTexels/sec	24000 MTexels/sec
Max Power Draw:	61 W	59 W
Noise Level:	Moderate	Moderate
Framebuffer:	512,1024 MB	256,512,1024 MB
Memory Type:	GDDR5	GDDR3
Memory Bus Type:	64×2 (128 bit)	64×2 (128 bit)
DirectX Compliance:	11.0	10.1
OpenGL Compliance:	3.2	2.1
PS/VS Version:	5.0/5.0	4.1/4.1
Process:	40 nm	55 nm
Fragment Pipelines:	400	320
Vertex Pipelines:	0	?
Texture Units:	20	32
Raster Operators	8	8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Benchmark and Review

Posted on March 28, 2010, 2:52 am in Reviews, Video Card

On Friday past week, NVIDIA Corporation released their new GPU line. The GPU named GTX 480 and GTX 470, based on Fermi Architecture.

Lets see how it look like,

GeForce GTX 480

Looks ferocious huh?

The GTX 480 GPU is powered by 480 CUDA Cores, more than twice of GT200 has, while GTX 470 using 448 CUDA Cores. There is a total of 1536MB of GDDR5 memory running through a 384-bit bus that combine to deliver higher memory bandwidth. GTX 480 is priced at $499 USD, and GTX 470 at $349 USD. Continue Reading

Xigmatek HDT-S1283 Cooler [mini] Review

Posted on March 16, 2010, 7:31 am in Cooling

Xigmatek HDT-S1283 Review

Dimension: 120(W) x 159(H) x 50(D) mm Heat Sink Material: Aluminum Alloy Heat-pipe: Φ8 x 3

Fan Dimension: 120(W) x 120(H) x 25(D) mm Speed: 800~1500 R.P.M. Noise Level: 16~24 dBA

Weight: 600g (w/fan) Thermal Resistance: 0.16 ℃/W Supported Sockets: LGA 775/AMD Socket AM3/AM2/754/939/940

The Xigmatek HDT-S1283, an old CPU/Processor Cooler but its still has the crown for price performance for CPU cooling along with Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus.

I just bought Xigmatek HDT-S1283 about a month ago to replace my AMD Phenom !! X2 550’s stock cooler which has a very small heatsink and cannot did a good job to take the “Callisto” cool. After I unlock my Phenom II X2 550 BE to X4 B50 “Deneb”, Its going worse.

From the design, this cooler uses a huge heatsink with three 8 mm heatpipes and one 12 cm fan. The fan is very quiet, and it will increase and decrease the speed automatically according to the CPU temperature.

At X2 550 stock speed, with AMD Stock cooler, I can get 40°C at idle, and 63°C at full load, seems pretty high.

With Xigmatek HDT-S1283, at stock speed, I get 35°C at idle, and 54°C at full load.

When I Unlock extra 2 cores to X4 B50, with AMD stock cooler, I get 59°C at idle, and hmmmm… 72°C at full load. My CPU is gonna burned.

Hmm, time to Xigmatek HDT-S1283. At stock speed, the Xigmatek HDT-S1283 can handle Phenom II B50 very well at 40°C. When I use prime95, at full load the temperature reach 56°C, very good indeed.

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Final thought, the Xigmatek HDT-S1283 is a great product, priced at about $33 this cooler along with Coolermaster Hyper 212 is unbeatable at those cheap price. For decent overclocking, this cooler is considered as the best choice. Continue Reading

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