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Initial ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB Benchmarks

This article brings us our first benchmarks of an ATI card, and our first experience with EyeFinity. I was fortunate enough for ATI to contact the WSGF, and I was able to obtain an HD 5870 1GB sample for testing. A full review will follow, but I wanted to get the numbers out as soon as I could.

My rig currently stands at:

  • ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB Catalyst 9.10
  • EVGA X58 Tri-SLI Motherboard
  • Intel i7 920 at 4x2.67GHz
  • 12GB G.Skill DDR3 RAM
  • 2x Samsung 320GB T-Series HDD (one for the OS and games; one for swap file and FRAPS)

Ramblings of a Moron: Left 4 Dead 2

Disclaimer

"Ramblings of a Moron" is a review series done by WSGF member Cynagen. While reviews from other sites focus on extensive play and detailed postmortem analysis, "Ramblings of a Moron" is a first impression "stream of consciousness" review. The grammar isn't perfect, and the prose can sometimes be disjointed, but these are the first impressions of a seasoned WSGF Insider. For more information, and for more Ramblings, see the complete list of Cynagen's offerings.


The Rambling

Cynagen on

Dragon Age: Origins

Bioware's attempt at a party-based RPG like the good old days.
The box says, "partial nudity" so it has to be a quality product.
Enjoy, adventure, pillage, murder, do what you do best.

Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War

Rise of Flight is a flight simulator depicting aerial warfare over the Western Front during the First World War. The time line of Rise of Flight currently covers the years from 1916-1918. The included game map covers over 120,000 km² of the Western Front.
Some well-known flyable aircraft are included in the base game (Albatros D.Va, Fokker D.VII, Nieuport 28.C1, SPAD 13.C1), with additional add-on aircraft from 1916 to 1918 available for purchase online.

Project64

Project64 is a proprietary Nintendo 64 emulator for Windows. It employs a plug-in system that allows third-party software developers to create their own implementation of a specified component. Project64 allows the user to play Nintendo 64 games on a computer by reading ROM images, either dumped from the read-only memory of a Nintendo 64 cartridge or created directly on the computer as homebrew

Left 4 Dead 2

An awesome game about killing zombies. Follow-up to Left 4 Dead, this massively popular zombie killer provides the same fun fast-paced action of the original, supporting up to 4 player co-op.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is the sequel to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, a first-person shooter computer game by Ukrainian developer GSC Game World. Call of Pripyat is the third game in the survival FPS S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series.

Torchlight

Torchlight is a 3D singleplayer hack-n-slash. Despite the low-gore atmosphere, post-WoW look/pets/steampunk weaponry, and Titan Quest-like skill management and two-handed combat, the gameplay of Torchlight is as close to good old Diablo's as it gets.