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By TechRadar, published 28-08-2011
We've been waiting for the Llano machines to touch down in the office for awhile now and CyberPower has not disappointed us dropping the £499 Ultra Triton GT in our laps. With the top-end Llano Lynx A8-3850 beating away at the heart of the rig, with a hefty overclock dropped on it for good measure, it's a tantalising prospect. This A8 APU comes with the Radeon HD 6550D graphics core onboard, essentially giving the chip itself the equivalent graphical oomph of a HD 5570. That's no great shakes in the discrete GPU world, but in terms of integrated graphics you're looking at around 480 GFLOPS of GPU processing against the top Sandy Bridge HD 3000 parts pumping out just 125 GFLOPS. At best. Just add CrossFire But if you want actual gaming potential from a Llano rig then you need to take advan...

By MaximumPC, published 30-06-2011
It’s clear that HP sees the value in this category. The PC maker’s new TouchSmart is sleek, polished, and is the first all-in-one we’ve ever seen to feature a subwoofer-out jack. HP makes a subtle but valid point here: The truth about these systems is that, regardless of where we set them up—kitchen, living room, garage—we find ourselves frequently using them as music stations, so why not aim for higher audio fidelity? Conveniently, HP has also integrated Monster’s (and Dr. Dre’s) Beats environment, allowing the TouchSmart 610 to pump out impressive enough sound to make people do a double-take. HP’s Touch Smart is fast, polished, and has a nice screen. It’s also the only system of the batch that tilts up and down. Beats notwithstanding, HP also packs some beef into this ...

By SlashGear, published 05-09-2011
HP, in the TouchSmart 610, has created their most compelling all-in-one desktop PC to date. With the TouchSmart line HP has always demonstrated their commitment to touch and multi-touch in PCs, and they have brought a number of enhancements to the TouchSmart 610 that make touch even more convenient. The Screen The TouchSmart 610 has a 23in full 1080p 16:9 wide screen, and uses one of our favorite screen technologies called IPS (in-plane switching). IPS panel technology provides wide horizontal and vertical viewing angles as well as bright clear contrast. The only knock on IPS is that it is quite glossy and will reflect room and ambient light. HP also included a feature called optical touchscreen technology which conveniently allows you to use the screen even if wearing gloves, and allow...

By TechRadar, published 05-04-2011
With its latest two releases, the AMD Radeon HD 6670 and this AMD Radeon HD 6570, AMD is ducking below the £100 mark.AMD has long been the value proposition when it comes to gaming. Whether it's processors or graphics cards, you can always rely on it to give you options no matter what your cashflow looks like. Indeed, with this little card at around £50, it's seriously limboing that £100 price point.So we've seen the HD 6570's big brother in action and, ignoring the more tantalising prospect of the XFX Radeon HD 5770, it's not a bad little budget gamer's card. Based on the same essential architecture, this slightly slower £50 version ought to be pretty good value too.They're both running the same new AMD GPU and, in Sapphire clothing, they're both set on a full-size slab of PCB with an...

By TechRadar, published 02-11-2011
The HD 5750 is not a rampaging powerhouse. It can run games at 1,680 x1,050, but don't expect searing frame rates, especially when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering are on the cards.Moreover, DX11 effects, such as Tessellation and Multi-thread Rendering, require the kind of resource budgets the 5750 simply can't raise. With its narrow memory bus and a GPU that pales in comparison to AMD's other offerings, it struggles in these tests.Market changes mean that things have got a little better for the HD 5750, however. Just a month or so back, it was priced similarly to Nvidia's GTS 450, the raw grunt of which it simply can't match. It's come down a bit in price now though, and can be found for around £15 cheaper than the GTS 450, and its bigger brother, the HD 5770. But still that £15 ...