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AMD Radeon RX 480 Video Card Successfully Flashed to RX 580
After less than 24-hours since its launch, a user from the TechPowerUp forums called TonybonJoby has shown that he has successfully flashed a previous generation AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics card with a Sapphire RX 580 BIOS. He used an XFX RX 480 8GB graphics card and used the ATIFlash…
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PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 580 8GB Graphics Card Review
Introduction PowerColor has a long history of creating high-performance AMD graphics cards, and their latest, the PowerColor Red Devil RX 580 promises to deliver faster performance than the 4xx series, better cooling, higher clock speeds, and offers up 8GB of GDDR5 memory. It comes equipped with the latest AMD’s 4th generation…
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AMD Shows Off Perfect Multi-GPU Scaling with DX 12 EMA
Since the mid-2000’s, users have been able to use either AMD’s CrossFire or Nvidia’s SLI to boost their graphics performance. By pairing up two identical or similar cards, it is possible to achieve performance in the excess of that provided by a single card. Despite the theoretical benefits, both CrossFire and…
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RX 480 Prices Continue To Fall As Vega Rumours And News Heat Up
Good news if you’re looking for a new GPU, RX 480 prices continue to fall as Vega rumours and news heat up! Back at the launch of the new line of cards from AMD, you could pick up an 8GB variant of the RX 480 for around £240. As time…
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XFX Gives Away RX 480 Patriot Edition to Make Gaming Great Again
Often times, companies will have giveaways set to coincide with special events like New Years or CES. In a surprising move, XFX has also started a new giveaway to coincide with the United States Presidential Inauguration. Taking a page out of President Trump’s slogan, the XFX RX 480 Patriot Edition is meant to…
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The Division DirectX 12 Update Sees RX 480 Beat The GTX 1060
The Division DirectX 12 update sees the RX 480 beat the GTX 1060, after testing began for the DX12 update that hit The Division recently. The cards used were the ASUS Radeon RX 480 8gb STRIX, and the ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 6gb STRIX. Both were running on the latest drivers, and the same…
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Intel and AMD Team Up For Holiday Bundle
The holidays have always been a great time for reconciliation, where enemies get together in the spirit of giving. In a rare surprise, AMD and Intel are teaming up together to offer a bundle discount and bigger games bundle. In partnership with Newegg and MSI, the two companies are offering a…
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AMD Giving Away Civilization VI With RX 480
Over the past couple of years, hardware has often been bundled with free copies of games. This trend has more or less become standard, making it more or less certain that there will be a freebie whenever you purchase a new GPU. As part of their ongoing game promotion, AMD…
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Swiftech to Launch RX 480 Custom Water Block?
Eager to keep your graphics cards cool and quiet with a kickass custom loop cooling solution? If the answer is yes, you’ll be glad to hear that Swiftech is to release an RX 480 water cooling block. The source of this information is a little interesting, however, coming from a…
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Overclockers UK Adds Free Gaming Chair with Gaming PC
Bundled items for free with your purchase is something that we all like and most of the time it comes in the form of something small like a game or two, but Overclockers UK has taken it to the next step this time and they are actually giving away free gaming…
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ASUS Releases AMD Radeon RX 480 DUAL
Over a month ago, AMD first revealed the RX 480 to the world. With the new Polaris 10 die, the new Radeon GPU promised to bring improved performance per dollar and value to the mainstream gamer. While the reference model launched right away, the custom models had to wait until…
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HIS Releases AMD RX 480 IceQX2 Roaring
Just over a month ago, we got our first glimpse of the custom RX 480 graphics cards. One of the eye-catching ones was the HIS Radeon RX 480 IceQX2 Roaring. Sporting a new design paradigm, and a new golden lion logo, the Roaring stood out quite a bit. Just a month later…
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AMD RX 480 Really is Full Polaris 10 GPU
Before Polaris 10 officially launched, wild rumours were swirling around the performance and specifications. Some reports suggested Fury levels of performance which we now know would require a larger GPU than that used for the RX 480. Due to these performance claims, some observers felt that the RX 480 was…
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AMD Wants Energy-Efficient Gaming PCs
High-end gaming PCs are notorious energy hogs, but a new white paper from AMD has shown how GPUs could become more energy-efficient. A recent study by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) showed that PC energy consumption could be slashed by merely implementing idling technology that cuts power draw during…
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MSI Radeon RX 480 GAMING Coming Next Month?
AMD’s RX 480 graphics card has been out for some time now and despite it originally launching with only a reference design, many manufacturers have been getting to work on developing their own custom versions of the popular budget grade card. Earlier this month we caught a glimpse of MSI’s…
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