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Maximum PC review: EVGA GTX 470 SC

Dan Stapleton | Hardware Reviews, Tech | 29/06/2010 23:04pm
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Our compatriots over at MaximumPC.com have given outstanding marks to Nvidia’s newest mid-range graphics card, which trounces the Radeon HD 5850 in most tests.

“Built on a cut-down version of Nvidia’s high-end, DirectX 11 GPU, this card posted eyebrow-raising benchmarks, pretty much putting it into a class of its own.”

Click here to read the full review and benchmark tests.

Ask the expert: should I turn off UAC?

PC Gamer | Ask The Expert, Tech | 29/06/2010 14:00pm
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If cross platform gaming were a horse race, the PC would be a thoroughbred. Faster, more powerful and with a penchant for expensive oats. Like any infinitely rarified animal or highly tuned machine, though, it doesn’t take much to cause it damage. Our resident tech vet Adam Oxford is here to put it out of your misery.

GeForce GTX 480 review

PC Gamer | Hardware Reviews, Tech | 10/06/2010 21:18pm
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Nvidia’s DirectX 11-capable graphics processors, codenamed Fermi, have finally arrived. The Fermi core, also known as GF100, at last pushes Nvidia beyond the first unified shader design it used with the 8800 series almost four years ago.