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PowerColor Makes EyeFinity Cheaper with DisplayPort to DVI Adapter

Knowing of the price issues associated with Eyefinity setups, and the fact that the necessity for displays with distinct input options can limit one's choice when buying suitable monitors, PowerColor decided to create and release an adapter that transforms a DisplayPort into a single-link DVI.The ATI Eyefinity ...

25 August 2010
03:53 GMT

PowerColor Brings Out a Low Profile Radeon HD 5750

Home-Theater Personal Computers can always do with some new hardware options, and since low profile video boards practically determine the overall performance, PowerColor decided to increase the collection of available solutions by one model, namely the Radeon HD 5750 Low Profile.Though meant for compact PCs, the ne...

19 August 2010
06:54 GMT

Single-Slot PowerColor HD 5770 Debuts

When it comes to reasonably capable systems, especially those with support for DirectX 11 graphics, one does not feel compelled to assume that the desktop they build will actually be very compact, and some even prefer it when their casings are of colossal proportions. Mostly this is because competent parts, especial...

30 July 2010
03:38 GMT

PowerColor Radeon HD 5870 Gets Watercooled

NVIDIA is on its way towards finally covering the entire graphics market and Advanced Micro Devices won't manage to bring out anything new for a while. AMD also does not seem to have any intention of lowering its price points. This is just another reason for its partners to once again bring out customized versio...

23 July 2010
02:36 GMT

PowerColor Trumpets PCS+ HD5770 Vortex Edition

A large variety of GeForce GTX 460 graphics cards have shown up over the past few days and the so-called pressure placed on AMD was enough to even lead to a price reduction of the ATI Radeon HD 5830. Nevertheless, it appears that the time has come for AMD's partners to retaliate, and PowerColor seems quite eager...

16 July 2010
05:17 GMT

PowerColor Also Brings VGA Cooler with Adjustable Thickness

Today definitely seems poised to be the day of odd announcements, in a manner of speaking. Granted, that Samsung, Acer and ASUS would unveil new mobile PCs is not exactly that odd a development, but the so-called PowerJack from PowerColor definitely was out of the ordinary. Now, the same company has brought out a rat...

6 July 2010
05:47 GMT

PowerColor Makes Graphics Cards More Stable

Most computer accessories usually have something to do with peripherals or plugs and cables, if not with adding an overall impression of style to a certain machine. Still, once in a while, a certain hardware maker will come up with something less ordinary, even if the idea of its new product isn't exactly easy ...

6 July 2010
05:08 GMT

PowerColor Sticks DirectX 11 Low Profile HD 5770 into HTPCs

Home Theater Personal Computers may not normally benefit from as much attention from the media as gaming desktops or enthusiast hardware, but they are still quite widespread. This is because they can deliver a high-quality multimedia experience in a small form and, usually, an aesthetically-pleasing packaging that fi...

4 June 2010
03:46 GMT

PowerColor Preps NVIDIA-Compatible ATI Radeon HD 5770

It can hardly be said that the past months have suffered from a shortage of unusual inventions, especially with mention of cement flash drives and superdisks 1,000 times more capacious than Blu-ray. Even the Hydra 200 SoC, which lets AMD and NVIDIA cards work together, became popular enough to warrant a trip to the m...

27 May 2010
08:26 GMT

Overclocked PowerColor PCS+ HD 5550 Now Available

Whenever the marketing performance of a piece of hardware is threatened, either by competing products or simply because said product is “getting old,” the next logical step is for its maker to either launch a device meant to replace it or refine the existing one. The ATI Radeon HD 5550 may not exactly be ...

20 May 2010
08:31 GMT

PowerColor Eyefinity 12 HD 5970 Inbound

Though there have been a high number of enthusiast product launches over the years, few have been able to spell 'overkill' quite as quaintly as what PowerColor has in store. Whether because large display areas are the current trend, or because the company is trying to see what it would take to drive even th...

19 May 2010
06:56 GMT

PowerColor Builds 'Eyefinity 12' HD 5970

Whether it is going too far or just far enough, PowerColor seems to be planning on blasting any multi-monitor competition out of the sky with its newest beast. It has been known for a while that AMD's partners are hard at work making 4GB HD 5970 cards, but it can be said that there was little to prepare the ent...

28 April 2010
10:27 GMT

PowerColor Also Unleashes Overclocked HD 5870

Now that the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 graphics cards are out and winning every gaming benchmark they can find, it makes sense that partners of Advanced Micro Devices would try to somehow counter this effect with newer HD 5000 Series models. In fact, with Sapphire having already unshackled its 2GB GDDDR5-equ...

16 April 2010
05:08 GMT

PowerColor Brings Out PCS++ HD5770

Over the past few months, PowerColor has released a significant number of graphics adapters, encouraged by the steady flow of new HD 5000 Series cards with DirectX 11 support from ATI, business unit of Advanced Micro Devices. Now that that flow has settled somewhat, the company has begun work on new versions of exist...

7 April 2010
08:29 GMT

PowerColor Joins Eyefinity 6 Bandwagon

While NVIDIA seems to have the 3D field firmly in its grasp, AMD is leading in the area of display scalability. The Eyefinity technology has been selling, as part of DirectX 11 cards, for several months. Now, AMD raised the bar somewhat by releasing its first Eyefinity 6 Version and, much in the same way NVIDIA'...

31 March 2010
11:10 GMT

HD 5670, HD 5570 Join PowerColor's Go! Green Line

When a graphics adapter is built strong enough to handle any game at decent resolutions, mainstream gamers no longer look at raw performance when choosing which graphics card to buy. This increasing tendency of the consumer base to decide based on power consumption and lifespan has led companies to devote special eff...

24 March 2010
06:31 GMT

PowerColor Launches HD 5770 with Eyefinity 5

While NVIDIA has been developing 3D technologies for gamers, ATI has been marketing a different technique for providing immersion, namely the multi-display solution known as the Eyefinity. This technology allows a Radeon HD card to spread its image across three or even six different displays, enabling a different ex...

20 March 2010
06:08 GMT

PowerColor Tweaks the Radeon HD 5830

Once again, the time has come for Advanced Micro Devices to expand its DirectX 11 graphics-card offering. The Sunnyvale, California-based CPU and GPU maker has released the Radeon HD 5830 and, naturally, its partners have immediately followed suite with their own custom models. PowerColor, of course, did not tarry an...

25 February 2010
06:08 GMT

PowerColor-Branded HD 5500 Cards Debut

AMD has only just announced its ATI Radeon HD 5570 graphics adapter and already its partners have started launching their respective versions. PowerColor, however, did not limit itself to only the “small” number of four HD 5570 models, but also chose to launch two HD 5550 cards. All devices feature Direct...

9 February 2010
10:28 GMT

PowerColor Go! Green HD 5450 Cards Debut

AMD designed its ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card as a low-cost solution for entry-level systems in need of DirectX 11 support and a good multimedia solution. As such, the company developed the card very power efficient, even using a passive cooling design. While different incarnations of the card have already been l...

5 February 2010
05:40 GMT

PowerColor Gives HD 5670 a Boost

When Advanced Micro Devices launched its Radeon HD 5670 DirectX 11-capable graphics card, hardware makers immediately followed suite with their respective custom models, even though the actual differences between their products and the stock device were minimal. PowerColor was also among the companies whose HD 5670 h...

29 January 2010
03:49 GMT

PowerColor LCS HD5970 Is Factory Overclocked

The release of the Radeon HD 5670 graphics card was last week's main piece of news. The card offered mainstream users an affordable graphics solution with DirectX 11 support and was released by multiple hardware makers, each model with its own special perk. This time, however, PowerColor is not introducing anoth...

18 January 2010
08:40 GMT

Power Color Also Rolls Out HD 5670 Graphics

Joining the crowd of hardware manufacturers that have released their respective Radeon HD 5670 graphics cards is PowerColor with two models of it own. Unlike Gigabyte, PowerColor chose, like HIS, Club 3D and MSI, to only install a special cooling solution on its new device instead of overclocking it. The video adapte...

15 January 2010
07:03 GMT

PowerColor Releases Overclocked Radeon HD 5770 PCS+

As it has become rather customary, when one hardware manufacturer releases a slightly customized version of a reference product, other rivaling companies would quickly follow suite. In this case, the Radeon HD 5770 graphics adapter from AMD (ATI) was released at a very short interval by not only Sapphire, but also by...

8 December 2009
10:12 GMT

PowerColor Jumps on the Radeon HD 5970 Bandwagon

Following the official debut of AMD's fastest graphics card to date, the much-anticipated Radeon HD 5970, the company's AIB partners have been given the green light to announce their versions of the latest GPU. Such is the case with MSI, which was among the first graphics card makers to announce the new Ra...

18 November 2009
09:37 GMT

PowerColor Unveils the 'PLAY! HD5770' Graphics Card

PowerColor, one of the many graphics card manufacturers that can provide you with custom-designed Radeon graphics card, has announced today the debut of a new graphics card that makes use of AMD's HD 5770 graphics processing unit. Dubbed PLAY! HD5770, the new card has been specifically designed for the mainstre...

13 November 2009
04:44 GMT

PowerColor Intros Passively Cooled Radeon HD 5750 SCS3

PowerColor, one of the world's leading vendors of Radeon-based graphics cards, has just announced the expansion of its family of Radeon HD 5700 cards with the debut of the SCS3 HD 5750 model. The new product has been specifically designed to provide consumers with a 40nm GPU that works on a card with a passive c...

5 November 2009
04:52 GMT

PowerColor Announces the Liquid Cooled Radeon LCS HD 5870

At this point in time, AMD's Radeon HD 5xxx-series is the only GPU series that can support the next-generation DirectX 11 API, and an upcoming wave of DirectX 11 games. However, aside from the enabled DirectX 11 support, it has also allowed the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker to provide users with a choic...

29 October 2009
06:20 GMT

PowerColor Readies the Radeon HD 5870 LCS Featuring an EK Waterblock

If you are among those computer and gaming enthusiasts that are always on the lookout for the latest, high-end hardware components, then these days you are probably looking for the latest deals on the AMD Radeon HD 5800 Series GPUs. These cards currently deliver the best performance on the market, featuring a 40nm GP...

7 October 2009
06:29 GMT

PowerColor Radeon HD 5700 Series GPUs Get Listed

Much in the same way that AMD's current line of high-performance Radeon HD 5800 series of GPUs were leaked on the Internet prior to their official launch, a new GPU range appears to be growing closer to an official launch. We are talking about the company's next-generation mainstream lineup, the Radeon HD 5...

7 October 2009
05:57 GMT

Win a DirectX 11 Radeon GPU in New PowerColor Contest

There has been a series of details made available on the Internet regarding the next generation of desktop graphics cards providing users with support for the upcoming DirectX 11 API, but it finally looks like we have a confirmation that these cards are on their way. PowerColor, one of the world's leading manufa...

2 September 2009
08:35 GMT

PowerColor's 55nm Radeon HD 4730 Goes On Sale

For some time now, AMD has been rumored to be preparing the release of yet another Radeon graphics card, part of the company's extensive line of HD4xxx-series of GPUs. The new card is said to provide users with a performance similar to the Radeon HD 4770, based on the new 40nm manufacturing process. However, the...

15 June 2009
06:01 GMT

PowerColor Further Pushes Boundaries with New 1GHz PCS++ HD4890

PowerColor, one of the leading vendors of computer graphics accelerators designed using AMD's latest Radeon GPUs, has announced today the expansion of its PowerColor HD4890 series with the introduction of the high-performance PCS++ HD4890. The new card builds on the company's previous PCS+ HD4890, but deliv...

13 May 2009
08:41 GMT

PowerColor Announces the 'Fastest HD4890'

Earlier this month, Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices announced its latest addition to the successful line of HD 4000-series GPUs, with the introduction of the highly anticipated RV790-based Radeon HD 4890 graphics card. Designed to boost the performance of the company's previous flagship model,...

24 April 2009
07:00 GMT

PowerColor Launches the LCS Radeon HD 4890

Powercolor, one of AMD's largest board partners for ATI Radeon graphics cards, has recently rolled out a new, custom-designed graphics card based on AMD's latest RV790 GPU, the Radeon HD 4890. The new Powecolor Radeon HD4890 has been equipped with a liquid cooling solution and a factory-overclocked GPU that...

7 April 2009
10:58 GMT

PowerColor Equips Radeon HD 4850 with GDDR4 Memory

This is probably the best moment to be an ATI board partner, as the company continues to regain the ground it lost to competitor NVIDIA, with its Radeon HD 4000-series graphics cards. It is because of these cards' performance potential and relatively affordable price range that most graphics card manufacturers d...

10 November 2008
03:12 GMT

Radeon HD 4830 to Launch on October 23

Given the high number of leaked photos that have recently surfaced on the Internet, revealing new HD4830-based graphics cards from various makers, we can only assume that AMD is bound to release a new Radeon card sometime this week. As a matter of fact, some leaked details even suggest that we should be expecting sai...

20 October 2008
07:40 GMT

PowerColor to Bring HDMI, DisplayPort-Equipped Radeon HD 4850

Without a single trace of doubt, AMD's channel partners are going through what can only be deemed a terrific period, and they all have the release of the company's latest HD 4000-series of graphics cards to thank for. Just recently, most of them have announced the availability of various models, developed o...

1 August 2008
06:16 GMT

Unveiling of the World's First 2GB Graphics Card

This past Friday, we told you about certain rumors surrounding a possible release of a 2GB Radeon graphics card, coming from PowerColor. According to the rumors, which only surfaced once a set of photos with the card were posted on the ExpreView website, PowerColor was allegedly preparing for the release of a 2GB ver...

16 July 2008
08:44 GMT

Another 2GB Graphics Card Should Soon Emerge

As we told you yesterday, Sapphire's highly rumored Toxic HD 4850 graphics card is one of the most anticipated products of this summer. However, as it turns out, Sapphire is not the only one that plans on releasing a high-end card based on AMD's mid-range 4850 GPU. Another one of AMD's channel partners...

11 July 2008
04:31 GMT

PoweColor HD 4850 Cards in Stock

Wondering where from to get your ATI Radeon 4850 graphics card? How about Germany, from an online retailer that has listed a PowerColor branded Radeon HD 4850 card as being in stock? Now, this should definitely come as a nice surprise to gaming users and technology enthusiasts who want to be among the first to get th...

18 June 2008
03:27 GMT

PowerColor to Support The Lance Armstrong Foundation

JV Logic, the computer hardware manufacturing company that owns the PowerColor and the Zogis brands, recently announced that it will support the Lance Armstrong Foundation by donating a certain percentage of its October earnings in the United States. Currently, the Lance Armstrong Foundation is one of the most import...

4 October 2007
11:05 GMT

Incoming Dual-GPU Radeon HD 2600 Cards

Dual-GPU graphics cards are the new trend these days as they allow users to build pretty powerful gaming machines even on mainboards that are not equipped with multi card capabilities like SLI or CrossFire. While Nvidia-based multi graphics processing unit cards are not common it looks like AMD just discovered a whol...

18 September 2007
02:52 GMT

PowelColor Launches Silent X1950 Pro Cards

TUL Corporation claims that its latest PowerColor X1950 SCS3 is the best performing noiseless graphics card in the world. Although integrating a passive cooler, the new model still sticks to the original ATI specifications with the core running at 575MHz and the memories clocked at 1380 MHz. The card includes 256-bi...

5 March 2007
08:56 GMT


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