Unique Radeons for the holidays
HIS introduced an entry-level card, while MSI introduced a mid-range card.
Micro-Star International has pulled the lid off the latest Cyclone product, which is virtually a tuned and individually cooled Radeon 6850. reported, however, now that the card has been officially released, more and more accurate and last but not least official data is available. The manufacturer has over-drawn the Barts Pro graphics processor clock, almost reaching the Barts XT frequency, which in concrete numbers means that the clock has been shifted to 775 MHz instead of the reference 860 MHz, and the Barts XT's reference clock is 900 MHz. there is an HDMI and a DisplayPort.
Guru3D staff did a thorough test of this card, which on this can be viewed on the page. The product is already available for 170-180 euros.
Another custom-designed AMD card arrived for the holidays, straight from HIS, which strengthens the Evergreen product line. Built around the Park GPU, the Radeon 5450 has been given passive cooling, so it does its job silently regardless of the amount of load, making it an excellent choice for HTPC builders. However, its uniqueness lies not in this, but in the fact that it is not connected to the motherboard via a PCI-E bus, but via a 17-year-old, traditional PCI bus. The PCB has 512 MB of DDR3 memory, ticking at around 1.000 MHz, while the graphics processor at 650 MHz. In addition to the D-Sub on the back panel, there is also a DVI and an HDMI output. The Low-Profile card can be purchased for $ 95.
