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GeForce GTX 550 Ti AMP! Review

Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti AMP! in Rift and Crysis 2

Not content with throwing our usual bevy of Benchmarks at Nvidia’s successor to the GTS 450, we thought we’d do something a little different with the launch of the GTX 550 Ti. Thus we give you some extra figures in the form of Rift and Crysis 2 multiplayer demo benchmarks. You can find the full review of the GeForce GTX 550 Ti AMP! over on sister site, Tech Radar, but before you leave us to see whether Nvidia’s £129 card is worth throwing your hard earned cash at, take a look at the figures below.

1,000MHz GTX 550 cards

Palit has just announced two shiny new graphics cards – TX 550 Ti 1GB and GTX 550 Ti 1GB Sonic. The overclocked Sonic version runs at 10% over the standard card’s 900MHz. Nice though these new versions of the 550 are, its not such a great card to begin with. There are older and faster cards available for about the same money. Thank you chaps, they are very nice, but we still think you are better off with a GTX 460. So there. Review to follow says Dave.

GTX 570 overclocking

NVIDIA’s revamped Fermi core is a modern wonder, but that hasn’t stopped us tweaking its bits for our pleasure

An interesting coincidence for you: the Sun’s distance from the Earth is about 400 times the Moon’s distance, and the Sun’s diameter is about 400 times the Moon’s diameter – exactly the right configuration to cause a perfect total eclipse. It’s almost as unique a thing as the new NVIDIA GTX 570, a graphics card that seems to balance price and performance perfectly. We love it, and you should too.

ASUS has four new tablets

Eee range surfaces at CeBIT

Among the goodies at CeBIT were the new range of tablets from ASUS. There are four new models: the Eee MeMO, Eee Transformer, Eee Slider and Eee Slate EP121.

There is a choice of three screen sizes and either Windows 7 Home Premium or Google Android operating systems. According to ASUS, “the ground-breaking new range delivers the ultimate experience in computing mobility and flexibility.” So there.

Two new AMD cards released, but the Radeon HD 6950 is the one to watch

Two new cards, but the HD 6950 makes the biggest impression

The two new Cayman GPU powered graphics cards from AMD, the Radeon HD 6970 and Radeon HD 6950, are here and everything you thought you knew has changed.