Diamond AMD Radeon HD 7970 Review

Tweak Town has tested and done a cool review on the Diamond AMD Radeon HD 7970. They have done the whole run through—right from the package and its contents, to how the card looks and its specifications, test system setup, and detailed benchmarking with games. For the real test freaks there are detailed tests like the High Quality Anti-Aliasing (AA) and Antistrophic Filtering (AF) stats, and also temperature, sound, and power consumption tests!

What is their final take on this awesome video graphics card? They love it, “…another great reference card …thanks so much to AMD who have been able to offer such a good base when it comes to performance and other areas like power draw. We’ve got little to complain about when it comes to the HD 7970 and this Diamond offering is no different.” In addition, they claim that the latest driver from AMD helps make the Diamond Radeon HD 7970 run better.

You can view the complete review here

The All New AMD Radeon HD 7770 & 7750

For those who thought the AMD HD 7970 was too expensive, AMD has come out with a couple of versions that won’t cost the earth to gamers. These are the HD 7770 and HD 7750. Both come with the same 28nm GCN architecture, codenamed “Southern Islands,” though the codename both Radeon cards go by—“Cape Verde”—these islands aren’t exactly in the Southern hemisphere, but in the northern hemisphere! (some interesting geographical info for you!)

With a price point of $160 for HD 7770 GHz edition and $110 for 7750 these cards are going to compete not just with the 7970 heavily, but the older generation cards too, like the 6850, 6770, the 5770, and other such.

The HD 7770 GHz edition provides one HDMI, DVI-D, and two Display Port connectors, but one particular feature that stands out is that this card can simultaneously be connected to up to six video monitors! The 7750 has just one mini Display Port instead of the two that the 7770 has. The HD 7770 is clocked at 1 GHz while the 7750 at 800 MHz and both have a GDDR5 memory.

Review on Diamond HP200AV Powerline Internet AV Kit–by Ron Burke

The review is a great read—very informative and practical. Some highlights:

“With the box unpacked it was time to see if setup is as simple as they suggest…Amazingly, it seems that my work was done.  Movies immediately spun up and streamed with almost no buffering time.  I brought up Hulu and other streaming applications including Pandora and found similar results – somehow this device just worked.  No configuration, no disc to run, no changes to make – just plug it in and you are done…

“I set up some transfers between my laptop and her desktop.  As I’d come to expect by this point, the device performed perfectly under pressure…

“The Powerline adapter works exactly as promised, delivering fairly close to the promised speeds (marketing misnomers aside), and was as simple to set up as had been promised.”

Read The Entire Review Here