Items tagged with 6850

by Joel Hruska - Wed, Jan 26, 2011

Purported Radeon 6990 Tips Up, Excited Whispers Ensue

Photos of AMD's upcoming Radeon 6990 dual-GPU have surfaced on the Japanese website 4Gamer.net and the card's sheer bulk is an impressive sight. Instead of using a fan mounted at the back of the GPU that pushes air across and out the front, the 6990's fan sits dead center where it can simultaneously cool both GPUs. We're curious about how... Read more...

by Jennifer Johnson - Tue, Oct 26, 2010

iBUYPOWER Adds New Systems With AMD Radeon 6000 Series Graphics Cards

iBUYPOWER is launching three new systems that take advantage of AMD's new 6000 series graphic cards. The new systems include the Gamer Mage D295, Gamer Mage D355, and Gamer Paladin F820. With the lowest price tag of the three new systems, the Gamer Mage D295 features a liquid cooled AMD Athlon II X4 640 Quad-Core... Read more...

by Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Oct 21, 2010

AMD Radeon HD 6870 & 6850 Graphics Cards Debut

AMD is hard launching a pair of new Radeon HD 6800 series cards today, based on the GPU formerly codenamed “Barts”. The new Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon HD 6850 are the first cards to arrive utilizing AMD’s second-generation DirectX 11 architecture. The cards are designed to offer Radeon HD 5800-class performance at much lower... Read more...

by Marco Chiappetta and Dave Altavilla - Thu, Oct 21, 2010

AMD Radeon HD 6870 & 6850 Graphics Cards Debut

Notice anything different in that Radeon graphics logo kicking back off to the left here? If not, you weren't paying attention, so forty lashes for you with a bump-mapped, specular lit, highly tesselated wet noodle. Though AMD may have finally decided to do away with their ATI branding so many years after the acquisition, you can... Read more...

by Marco Chiappetta and Dave Altavilla - Tue, Oct 19, 2010

AMD Reveals Radeon HD 6800 Series, Demos Llano Fusion-Based Processor

While attending a press event out in Los Angeles, California last week, to discuss the impending Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850 launch, we had the chance to get an early look at some of the first, fully functional samples of AMD’s upcoming “Llano” processor, or APU (Applications Processer Unit). For... Read more...

by Dave Altavilla - Mon, Jul 16, 2007

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850

What goes faster than a Core 2 Quad processor at 3GHz? Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your perspective, nothing from AMD at the moment. Thankfully Intel has a few more "MHz in the can", or so to speak. Actually, it appears they may have a lot more, as you'll see in the pages that follow. Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves... Read more...

by Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Jul 16, 2007

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 Launched

Hello All. I ntel’s has just launched their latest flagship desktop processor, the Core 2 Extreme QX6850, and we’ve got it on the test-bench at here HotHardware.com. Here’s a snip: “It took a small voltage bump to 1.45V in the BIOS to hit 3.73GHz. To achieve this, we raised the... Read more...