What's up Malaysian Gamers! Hey, you know what?- New year arrives, living expenses arises, yet graphic card's price is declining.. Awesome! Anyway, what's your resolution for this year? ;) Whatever it is, looking forward for this year's resolution to be accomplished!
Since i'll be quite busy this year, i would like to open an invitation to anyone who voluntarily would like to become a moderator in BudgetGC to bring us more frequent updates about latest news in GC industry. Thus, please do not hesitate to sent me an enquiry through budgetgc@gmail.com or using the form in the "Contact BudgetGC" section. Thanks!
Friday, January 6, 2012
Thursday, November 3, 2011
ATI Catalyst Driver 11.9 Update for ATi Users
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Nvidia's Latest Driver : New release of 280 series
Maybe I'm a little bit outdated, but the driver version of 280.26 for the GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs has been released a month ago. The driver can be downloaded here (Nvidia.com).
Thursday, March 3, 2011
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Basic Review
My reviews are going years backwards...Who cares? This card is a good bargain for budget gamers...
Radeon HD 2600 XT is the oldmid-range video card from AMD/ATI, supporting Shader 4.0 unified architecture (i.e., DirectX 10) and competing directly with GeForce 8600 GT from NVIDIA, both costing around USD 150.
The second problem is that AMD there are two basic versions of Radeon HD 2600 XT, one using GDDR4 memories running at 2.2 GHz (1.1 GHz DDR) and another using GDDR3 memories running at 1.6 GHz (800 MHz DDR). And for Radeon HD 2400 they allow the manufacturer to set any clock rate they want. The problem is that the reference models we got for reviewing were running at the top clock speeds and other Radeon HD 2600 and HD 2400 boards you will find at the market may be running at lower clock rates and thus achieving a lower performance.
With both GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon HD 2600 XT with GDDR4 memory having a suggested price of USD 150, they are clearly targeted to users that are looking for the best cost/benefit ratio possible, i.e., to users that want to play games at a good performance but don’t want to buy an expensive high-end model.
So, which one is the best for Average Joe?
Sunday, February 27, 2011
HIS Radeon HD3650 IceQ Basic Review
Hey, an old product but still kick ass performance for its price...
HIS has a lot of information about the HD 3650 on this page from which I got most of this information.
Here is their description:
HIS HD 3650 IceQ Turbo (Full HD 1080p) HDMI 512MB/256MB (128bit) GDDR3 Dual DL-DVI & TV (HDCP) PCIe
* Powered by Radeon® HD 3600 GPU
* HIS IceQ 3 Cooling Technology
* 512MB/256MB(128bit) GDDR3 memory
* Superscalar unified shader architecture
* 120 stream processing units
* 128-bit memory interface
* DirectX® 10.1 / Shader Model 4.1 support
* PCI Express® 2.0 support
* ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance
All the features:
HIS IceQ 3 Cooling Technology
HIS IceQ 3 is the 3rd generation of IceQ cooling technology which is endorsed by worldwide media. HIS IceQ 3 innovative design doubles the strength to its predecessor. It ensures lower operating environment for GPU and memory, extends headroom for overclocking and provides longer service life. HIS IceQ 3 can cool down the core temperature dramatically; lower than original cooler. Heat transfers rapidly out of GPU and reduces temperature faster. Also it is sensitive to ultra violate light with special UV effect.
Friday, February 25, 2011
MSI Radeon 6870 HAWK Basic Review
Incredible performance of HAWK series.. The card looks promising... I hope they have long enough warranty for the enthusiasts to mod them more like crazy..
It is quite interesting to see that there is an extensive shift towards the more high-end and enthusiast products in the past year or so. It seems that next to good performance and features, the end-users like to tweak more and more as well. Well that and they want the "good stuff". MSI is exhibiting that on all fronts, with their motherboards but of course also with their graphics cards.
And even when a graphics card is segmented in the mid-range .. they know precisely how to pimp it up in order to bring you a very attractive product at an okay price. Yeah, rock-solid designs with no compromises at all. In that context MSI just released their HAWK edition Radeon HD 6870 graphics card and well, the only thing left original is the actual GPU as everything else was changed.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti Basic Review
The sheer amount of new and updated graphics cards released lately is quite amazing.
Typically in the past around CeBIT time and Christmas you'll see product releases in the graphics arena. But with competition being this stiff it seems that each month or two we see new products being introduced.
Ti -- does that ring any bells? Well for those that can't remember it, NVIDIA started Ti (Titanium) branding in the GeForce 3 era many many moons ago; which stretched all the way to products like GeForce 4 Ti 4200 back in the year 2002. After 2003 the Ti series came to a grinding halt as the naming schema had to be changed to GeForce FX.
One thing we can say about the current NVIDIA's GTX 400/500 series naming schema is that it is very clear to the end user, so we find it a bit unfortunate to see confusing SE and Ti tags all of the sudden again. The market can definitely do without it.
Anyways, back to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti itself, aimed against the Radeon HD 6800 series the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is based on a new GPU refresh, the GF114 silicon which features 384 shader processors, a 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface, and a core clock speed of 822 MHz.
All factors combined deliver a product onto the market that is quite interesting performance and features wise, a product that is noiseless and has a power consumption level we can all life with.
Reference specifications:
Assasin's Creed 2 Gamepley using Gigabyte GTX560 Ti
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