"Another week marks the launch of yet another DirectX 11 GPU from AMD - After last week's low-end Radeon HD 5450, today we see the introduction of another "Redwood" GPU core derived board which looks to sit in-between that part and the Radeon HD 5670. Named the Radeon HD 5570, today's new offering promises a compelling level of performance at an extremely low price, but can it deliver on that potential? We take a look at Sapphire's Radeon HD 5570 1GB to find out."

"It has only been five days since ATI released the ATI Radeon HD 5450 video card, but they are back at it today with the announcement of the Radeon HD 5570 video card. This card was designed to be an energy efficient, low-profile DirectX 11 card for small form factor PCs. It also happens to pack a pretty mean punch as it has a Compute Performance rating of 520 GFlops for a price tag of just $79."

"AMD's clear goal at the moment is to finish rounding-off its HD 5000-series line-up in advance of NVIDIA's Fermi launch, and so far, it's doing a good job. It's continuing its success in this goal with the release of the $80 Radeon HD 5570, a card that's designed to offer stellar media capabilities along with reasonable gaming performance."

"The Sapphire Radeon 5570 is a low-power budget graphics card, marketed in the $80 range to consumers who are interested in some light gaming, and indeed the card is more capable than the lowly 5450 in terms of gaming performance. At this price range, the Nvidia GeForce GT 240 is the 5570's closest competitor. Question is: Can the 5570 continue with ATI's winning ways, or can the humble Nvidia GT 240 prove to be a bit too much as competition? Let's take a look at the Sapphire Radeon 5570 1GB and see how it fares."

"The results are in and the data has been checked and contrary to popular belief these statistics may shock you. According to our research 22" LCD monitors and video cards in the $75 to $125 dollar range are the most purchased parts in their categories for computer components. The Sapphire Radeon HD5570 is a budget mainstream video card with a price point under $100.00 USD. The Sapphire HD5570 offers DirectX 11 compatibility, 400 stream processors, a 650MHz core and 900MHz x2 memory. The Sapphire HD5570 is also Crossfire ready and at idle only consumes 10W with its Dynamic Power Management."

"It's self-evident how AMD has kept us busy over the last few months, showing us new generation GPUs aiming at all possible price points. From the performance-oriented HD 5850/5870, to the mainstream HD 5770 and the extreme dual-GPU powered HD 5970. The budget models had to wait a bit longer.

Today AMD is introducing another new member to the Radeon HD 5000 family -- the eighth installment in the series. The ATI Radeon HD 5570 will sit between the aforementioned Radeon HD 5450 and 5670 in terms of pricing and performance, which means it should deliver a similar level of performance to that of the Radeon HD 4670 at the same starting price of ~$79.

The Radeon HD 5570 is a more powerful GPU than the HD 5450, capable of playing games comfortably at 720p while retaining some of the HTPC-friendly properties that made the latter an attractive buy."

"For the rest of us, overclocking is where it's at, and luckily in this regard, the 5570 doesn't disappoint. The overclocking potential is due to the GPU processor being built on a 40nm die that is easily cooled by the passive heatsink on the card. After some tweaking, I was able to adjust the core clock by 251MHz and the memory speeds were able to be increase by 200MHz. Once I reached these final overclocking speeds, the HD 5570 really started to perform better and in many instances it was equal to or just shy of its older (and more expensive) brother, the HD 5670."

"It would be interesting to know the strategy behind ATI and their decision to release the HD 5400 series before the HD 5500. Considering the samples arrived only days apart, we doubt it was because one was ready and not the other. They could've almost released both cards at the same time; maybe they just wanted to spread it out a bit so they received more coverage instead of having one review / article on two models. Now they end up with two.

The big question that needs to be answered today is whether or not the HD 5570 performs closer to the HD 5670 or closer to the HD 5450. For the simple fact that we like performance, we hope that it leans towards the HD 5670, but we're really not sure. Before we find out just how it does perform, let's take a closer look at the package and the card itself."

"This is like dj vu all over again." That quote from the ever-so-quotable former New York Yankee Yogi Berra is particularly suitable for today's launch of the ATI Radeon HD 5570. Just last week, we brought you our coverage of the Radeon HD 5450 launch and wrote a bit about AMD's aggressive release schedule with regard to their DirectX 11-class GPUs. In this article, we will present to you yet another new DX11-class card from AMD, the ATI Radeon HD 5570.

A quick look at its model number, along with a bit of deductive reasoning, will reveal that the Radeon HD 5570 falls somewhere in between the Radeon HD 5450 and 5670 in AMD's current line-up. And in fact, the card shares some attributes of both cards. We'll get to the finer details in a just a bit; for now, check out the specifications and related information below and hunker down for a look at what could be one of the hottest graphics cards for HTPC users in quite a while... "

"With ATI's assault on the high and mid-range price segments nearly complete, their focus has now shifted to the lower end of the market. Hot on the heels of their HD 5450 release comes a card with substantially more graphics horsepower but with a sub-$100 price: the HD 5570 1GB. In this review we take a look at this card and how it does alone and in Crossfire configuration against some stiff competition."

"Today we will be taking a look at Sapphires 5570 to see where the new GPU fits into the market in a selection of real world gaming tests, GPU computing tasks and high definition playback. In addition to this we will also take a look back at two other products in the value area, the XFX 5670 and HIS 5450..."

"Hopefully one day soon Solid State Drives will be standard equipment for new computer systems, but first SSDs must become available as an optional upgrade item for build-it-yourself orders. Plextor/LiteOn hopes to bring this service to tier-one OEMs, and computers from Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Sony could soon offer lightning-fast SSD performance. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the LiteOn 32GB 'Strong-Page' SSD, model LA-32M1S, built on the Marvell 88SS8014-BHP2 Da-Vinci controller."

"We all know who the big case manufacturers out there are and we turn to them when its time to get a new case or purchase a case for a build. Not often a new company comes along and blows things out of the water. Well the case we are talking a look at today isnt from a new company, but they are new to cases. Corsair introduces their first case the Obsidian Series 800D. This case is one of the best cases Ive seen in a while featuring 4 hot-swappable bays, 3 isolated cooling zones, tool-free optical drive installation, and unique cable routing holes. Lets take a look at the 800D and see if Corsair has a winner in its first case."

"Today we're looking at the Kingwin Lazer 850W power supply, a unit that comes with enough horsepower for a hungry SLI/Crossfire setup, but with a price tag that won't break the bank. It's got some unique aesthetics with the ability to not only change the fan LED colour from blue to white, but also some modular connectors that illuminate as well. Flash will only get you so far though, performance has to back it up. Let's take a look and see if the Kingwin Lazer 850W has enough dash to go with the flash."

"The YouTube generation is no doubt among us. If you can think it up, there's probably already 50 videos of it on YouTube. With YouTube now supporting HD videos there's very little leg work required on your end before you upload. As such, manufacturers are starting to take advantage of this by integrating YouTube upload functionality right into their flash video cameras. Samsung has hopped onto this trend by releasing the HMX-U10 - a pocket sized HD camcorder with 10 megapixel still photos. The absence of flash and optical zoom does have me a bit worried, but we'll see how it performs."

"Today we are going to see the performance of two new CPUs from AMD, Athlon II X4 635 (2.9 GHz) and Phenom II X2 555 (3.2 GHz), and compare it to other models from AMD and competitors from Intel."

"Today we are looking at the Jetway NC63-330-LF Mini-ITX motherboard. This particular board comes with an Intel Atom 330 dual-core 1.6GHz processor, has 2 DDR2 slots supporting upto 8GB of DDR2 memory modules of speeds upto 800MHz. It uses the Nvidia ION chipsetand has integrated graphics that supports DirectX10. This board also has integrated HD sound and Gigabit Lan. A perfect board for HTPC users."

"Codenamed Clarkdale, the new LGA 1156 i3 / i5 chips are built on the Westmere 32nm process, joining the previous 45nm Bloomfield and Lynnfield releases in the Nehalem family. Another new idea Intel implemented in these chips is adding a GPU core directly on the processor alongside the CPU. Three new chipsets were also introduced that allow you to run one of these GPU-equipped processors without a discrete video card. Intel Turbo Boost and Hyper-Threading make an appearance in the i5 series as well. All of this and more just ahead as we take a detailed look at the Intel Core i5 661 processor. "

"ARCTIC COOLING has become known for their computer hardware that balances performance and quiet-operation. To my recollection, ARCTIC COOLING made their mark in the market with their Freezer series, value-priced CPU coolers that offered quiet-operation and good cooling capabilities to the average consumer's PC. As time passed, ARCTIC COOLING has added many CPU coolers, fans and GPU coolers to their line-up. Again, with their Accelero S1 GPU coolers, ARCTIC COOLING filled the niche of value passively cooled GPU cooling. Without a doubt, optimizing products to reduce noise has been a focal point in ARCTIC COOLING's vision.

Recently, ARCTIC COOLING has expanded to another market of noise-related products: consumer audio electronics. In particular, a dynamic line of earphones has been announced by the Swiss company (see Press Release). These several new earphones seek to offer excellent sound and features at great value. Today, Vortez Hardware will review one of ARCTIC COOLING's top earphones, the white Arctic Sound E361 (E361-WM) with microphone."

"Mushkin sent us a sample of their new DDR3 memory kit. We got a sample of their Tri channel kit with 3x2GB Ram kits at 12800 speed and 7-9-7-24 timings. What can we do with this kit and our Core i7 920 Cpu? Lets have a closer look."

"The NMP-1000 is not only a simple media player to hook up to your TV. The small unit includes a BitTorrent client, NAS, uPnP & DNLA functionality along with playback of ShoutCast, YouTube, Flickr, Picasa and Apple Trailers. In fact the list of functionality is so diverse, it does justify the 399 US Dollar price tag and still manages to put a smile on our faces."

"The best-selling Antec Nine Hundred offers gamers an unbeatable enclosure, one that delivers a combination of cooling, performance and convenience that is better than most competing cases in the same price range. The newer Antech Nine Hundred Two builds on this design with improved airflow and dominating style.

The Antec Nine Hundred Two case is the perfect case for builders who are just getting started or those of us who have been building machines for years. Antec makes the case incredibly versatile by allowing the user to practically customize the location for each storage device. Fan locations and controls are ideal and can be easily reached. All the fans are essentially quiet on their slowest settings, but this is more than enough to keep your rig cool. For hard-core enthusiasts, you can still crank the fans sacrificing noise comfort for airflow. Working with the Antec Nine Hundred Two was very easy..."

"For the longest time, Asus was the kind of company that was only known by techies and enthusiasts. That changed in recent years with the release of devices like the Eee PC line of netbooks and soon expanded into the realm of all-in-one PCs with the Asus Eee Top. Now the company is going one step further with its one of its first home theater PCs. Working off a subsidiary, we discover the ASRock Ion 330HT NetTop. It's got ASRock branding, but this is an Asus product through and through."

"Ultra, the company who’s claim to fame is inventing the modular power supply, brings us another one of their X4 creations. Their last power supply got good marks in the lab, lets see if their more powerful version can pull off the same."

"Team Group made a solid name for themselves a couple of years ago when they started offering some of the fastest memory on the market at a price that made other memory makers red in the face. Since then Team has been a part of the enthusiast community worldwide and even expanded their product offerings to include among other things flash memory drives and even solid state drives.

Today we are testing the new Team Group Xtreem-G1 solid state drive. The G1 is based on the Indilinx Barefoot controller and has a rated read speed of 260MB/s and a write speed of 180MB/s. The Barefoot controller is capable of using up to 64MB of high speed DRAM cache and Team stuffed the drive to the max with very fast cache memory."

"The HP Pavilion Elite HPE-140f, which was shown off at CES 2010, is HP's latest consumer elite desktop PC. It's aimed at high-end multimedia users and comes loaded with 8GB of RAM, a TV tuner, and more. With a retail price of just over $1000, it is a great value for the money."

"Today for review I've got a green accessory for your cell phone to make you life a bit easier maybe. If you're into using a speakerphone while driving then the Scosche solCHAT II might be right up your alley, it's nicely made, loud and easy to use. It even talks to you in a sort of sexy female computer generated voice to guide you through pairing, usage and she can even let you know who's calling by name."

"We have reviewed quite a few Foxconn motherboards over the years and the high end boards tend to have a lasting impression on us. In most cases performance is exceptional; design and style are outstanding. All of these features can be found in the latest Quantum Force motherboard, the Inferno Katana."

"No longer will you have to worry about ghosting artifacts and you can watch any action movie or sports game and feel like you are really there. Although LCD models may try to mimic the fluid playback a plasma TV brings to the table, they can't hold a candle to plasma technology even today."

"Power supplies are important and often overlooked components. Ultra Products understands that case-proud PC enthusiasts do not overlook the PSU. In fact, hard-core hardware geeks demand not just performance, but style to complement not just their ass kicking hardware, but their beautifully lit cases. Thus, Ultra has released the new X4 Series in a range of wattages starting at 500 watts. The model we are taking to task in this review is the totally modular 1600-watt version.

This block of power weighs a respectable 15 pounds, measures 240mm x 150mm X 87mm and features a 135mm fan. And, it is 80 Plus Certified. One note about the 1600-watt rating; this PSU is rated at 1600 watts when connected to a 20-amp plug using the special 120 volt 20 AMP cable (included). When you use the included 120 volt 15 AMP cord to connect to a typical outlet, the PSU operates at 1200 watts."

"For 2010, Intel has introduced a new line of processors code named Clarkdale, and will be known as the Core i5 600 series. At this point there are four processors in this series, the 650, the 660, the 670, and the 661. Today I will be looking at the Intel Core i5 661, a dual core LGA 1156 processor built in the 32nm process, with on-die video processing. This should make it a natural for HTPC and non-gaming rigs. How will the i5 661 fare with this geek who has had the honor of reviewing some of the most powerful video cards in the world? Read on to see!"

"NVIDIA and ATI dominate the market for gaming-oriented video cards. But neither company sells video cards directly to the consumer; rather, they produce "reference designs" that are manufactured by a number of "partners". Most partners simply produce the reference design and slap an identifying sticker on the card's cooler; although some might replace the reference design cooler with a quieter or more powerful solution, with few exceptions there's little to distinguish one partner's version of a specific card from another partner's version of the same card. EVGA breaks out of this rut with their EVGA GTX 275 CO-OP PhysX Edition, model 012-P3-1178-TR, which combines NVIDIA GTS250 and GTX275 GPUs on the same card, and Benchmark Reviews takes it around the block to see what it's got."

"The cooling solution that was on the ASUS ENGT240 did its job quite well - the highest that I saw the card get was 64C during all the testing, which is not very high for a video card operating at 630MHz on the GPU and running through all these benchmarks back-to-back. I do like the fact that the ENGT240 does get all the power that it needs from the motherboard's PCI-E slot - there are no extra power adapters that need to be plugged into the video card."

"How does a full-featured Phenom II X4 CPU for $99 sound? AMD's new dual core hotrod, the X2 555 BE, is actually an X4 in disguise and just needs a bit of help to unlock those two extra cores for all the performance goodness you can dream about at bargain prices. We successfully unlocked the X2 555 BE and we'll tell you how today and show the resulting performance increase."

"Today we are looking at the Boogie Bug AimB.Pad Gaming Surface. This is a regular sized mousemat that is 275mm x 320mm and is aimed at gamers and users who need precision from their mouse."

"The card with the best performance from AMD from the previous generation, the ATI RADEON 4870X2 has a very noisy stock cooling cooling system. Surprisingly, not a lot of custom VGA coolers appeared for it. Arctic Cooling thought a lot of us, the 4870X2 users and released the Accelero XTREME 4870X2 after a very big delay. Will this custom cooling be as great as it says on the package? We will see later in this review."