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Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending After many months of talking up its latest architecture, Nvidia reclaimed the single-GPU performance crown with its GeForce GTX 680, which outpaced the Radeon HD 7970 by about 7 per cent in our tests. Kepler’s arrival forced AMD to slash prices across its Southern Islands lineup, including a $US70 drop on the HD 7970, putting it at $US479 or about 4 per cent cheaper than the GTX 680′s MSRP of $US499.
Most of our game performance reviews feature triple-A blockbusters, but we’re changing pace for this write-up as we examine Tribes: Ascend, a free-to-play shooter released by Hi-Rez Studios on April 12. The Tribes franchise has deep roots in multiplayer shooter history, with Starsiege: Tribes making huge waves in the late ’90s and two other PC entries following in 2001 and 2004. The series has lain dormant since, but Hi-Rez hopes to revive the classic shooter with a 21st century monetization scheme.
Having covered the $US549 and $US449 territories in January with the Tahiti-based Radeon HD 7970 and HD 7950, AMD is bringing its latest generation GPU to mainstream brackets today. The new Radeon HD 7770 and 7750 use the same 28nm design process and Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture as the 7000 series flagship, albeit in more affordable configurations.
We’re a great deal savvier than we used to be about PC hardware. No longer are the insides of a computer scary – merely dark and, depending on how neat you are, dusty. Sure, you might scratch yourself on a sharp piece of metal, or procure a burn from a toasty heatsink, but any gamer who’s owned a system longer than five years has earned his licence to fly solo in the bowels of his silicon beast.
Titles such as Crysis have raised awareness of Direct3D 10, while Supreme Commander proved that dual and quad core processors have a place in the motherboard of the average gamer.
It’s a shame then that it’s become progressively harder to identify which graphics cards or processors are better, thanks to the irrelevancy of megahertz and esoteric product names packed with hyperbole. Is an Intel E6600 better than a Q6600, because E comes first in the alphabet? Shouldn’t a GeForce 9600GT be faster than an 8800GT by the difference of 800 “whatevers” in its name? The answer would be “no” in both cases.
I recently made a few purchases for my brother, whose AMD-based system finally decided that being a working PC wasn’t hip any more. As part of the process, I had to put together a few parts that would serve him for the next few years, but wouldn’t leave him scrounging his pocket lint for food money.
Anyway, hit the jump for my recommendations.
