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AMD Radeon Memory Business Reportedly Treading Water
AMD has long been known as a major player in the CPU and GPU market. In previous years, suffering financially, the company attempted to diversify into other areas of the PC market, most notably with various peripheral components. More notable ones are the R7 and R3 SSDs as well as the…
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Chillblast Fusion Hitman Gaming PC Review
Introduction Chillblast has received various accolades from respected media outlets and won more awards than any other system integrator on the market. This illustrates their commitment to providing the best possible value and upholding an unparalleled level of customer service. The company’s talented team of engineers create a huge range…
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AMD Readying New R7 and R9 SSDs
Last month, we reported that AMD had launched their new R3 SSDs quietly and without much fanfare. As we noted the new R3 drives were budget oriented, which was interesting as the R7 performance drives were EOL at the same time. Luckily for AMD fans, the chip maker is planning…
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Ashes of the Singularity DirectX 12 Graphics Performance Analysis
Introduction Ashes of the Singularity is a futuristic real-time strategy game offering frenetic contests on a large-scale. The huge amount of units scattered across a number of varied environments creates an enthralling experience built around complex strategic decisions. Throughout the game, you will explore unique planets and engage in enthralling air battles.…
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Do AMD Drivers Really Deserve Such a Hostile Reception?
Introduction AMD has a serious image problem with their drivers which stems from buggy, unrefined updates, and a slow release schedule. Even though this perception began many years ago, it’s still impacting on the company’s sales and explains why their market share is so small. The Q4 2015 results from Jon…
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AMD Bundles Hitman with GPUs and CPUs
Freebies are something that we all like and AMD has now bundled the new Hitman game with some of their graphics cards and processors as well as systems prebuilt with these components. AMD has partnered with IO Interactive again to bring this deal and they also joined the AMD Gaming Evolved…
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EK Releases MSI R9 390X GAMING 8G Full-Cover Water Block
EK WB has expanded their full-cover water blocks a lot lately and that goes for both motherboards and graphics card. The newest cooler is for the last, a graphics card, or more specifically a full-cover water block solution for MSI’s Radeon R9 390X GAMING 8G graphics card and it’s called the EK-FC…
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AMD Announces Large Price Drop on Radeon R9 Nano
When AMD launched the Radeon R9 Nano mini-ITX graphics card back in September 2015, the card gained a lot of popularity for several reasons. It was one of the smallest graphics cards available and at the same time delivers a punch that is similar to other high-end cards. The performance is…
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AMD Officially Responds to Fury X Cease-and-Desist
It has been a couple of months now since Asetek won over Cooler Master’s appeal in the long-time going legal battle in regards to patent infringement in the all-in-one liquid coolers. Shortly after this victory for Asetek we foresaw some issues for AMD’s liquid cooled Fury X graphics card that uses…
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AMD R9 380X 4GB Graphics Card CrossFire Review
Introduction Here at eTeknix, we strive to give the consumer the best possible advice in every aspect of technology. Today is no different and we are excited to bring you the CrossFireX review of the newly released R9 380X graphics cards. Based on the R9 380, which was based on the…
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Sapphire Nitro R9 380X 4GB Graphics Card Review with Back Plate!
Introduction If you’ve been reading up on the latest R9 380X range, you may have seen stories and possibly even reviews that the performance wasn’t as high as many expected. I one of those who was very disappointed with the performance when compared to the R9 380 and R9 390…
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AMD Radeon R9 Fury X2 Could Launch Next Month!
It looks like AMD are cooking up a big product launch for December, one that could knock Nvidia into the stone age! The as yet un-named graphics card from the red team is currently not officially named, but let’s call this powerhouse the Fury X2 for conversations sake. We’ve already known about…
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Vibox is Offering an Amazing “Level up” Deal!
Are you in the market of a new pre-built gaming computer? With the current Black Friday deals, it would be hard to ignore how good some are and system builders Vibox have jumped on the band-wagon with an incredible deal. Buy one of the appropriate computers from them and checkout…
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AMD Cutting Graphics Card Prices – Including Fury X, Fury and Nano!
AMD are in a really strong position right now, with a new series of graphics cards that may not have toppled all of the Nvidia flagships, at least not in every test, but it’s certainly put them back on the map in terms of high-end gaming. Their 3xx series of…
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Performance Overview: The Last AMD CCC 15.11.1 Beta
Introduction An unforeseen turn of events has taken place over the last few months. AMD split up its Processor and Graphics divisions and we recently heard the demise of Catalyst Control Centre to make way for Radeon Software. I for one was not expecting to see a graphics driver before the…
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