@ TweakTown"Last week when I started to receive HD 6850 samples, as usual I take the normal GPU-Z screen shot and discover that the numbers are wrong or unknown in GPU-Z 0.4.6. This isn’t unusual at the launch of a new card. Anyway, later that day GPU-Z 0.4.7 came out and it displayed everything. Unfortunately the Shaders showed as 1120, where it should’ve been 960. I checked my other HD 6850 and it had the same thing, so I put it down to a software error.
Over the next 36 hours it had come out that some HD 6850s did carry with them 1120 Shaders. This is what we know; the HD 6850s that we (and some other sites) received for launch carried with them HD 6870 cores and companies had forgotten to disable the extra Shaders. What we don’t know is, do all the HD 6850s carry the same cores on a retail level and companies have now disabled the extra Shaders via a BIOS? We hope to find that answer out in the next few days."
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HARDWARE
Mionix Naos 3200 Review @ OCC
BitFenix Colossus E-ATX Computer Case @ Benchmark Reviews
Antec Lanboy Air Case Review @ Tweaknews
Dell XPS 14 Notebook Review @ HotHardware.com
AMD Radeon HD 6850 1GB Graphics Card Video Review @ eTeknix.com
Sentey Arvina GS-6400B Full Tower Chassis
Cooler Master Storm Strike Force 19 @ LanOC Reviews
How to Fix 100% CPU Usage on Synology NASes @ OCModShop
Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 Video Card Review @ Benchmark Reviews
Thermaltake BlacX 5G HDD Docking Station Review @ Ninjalane
CM Storm SF-19 Strike Force Review @ OCC
Cooler Master Notepal U3 & Storm SF-19 Notebook Cooler Review @ Neoseeker
Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 Review @ Neoseeker
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Sentey Arvina GS-6400R Review at Overclockers Online
Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 1GB Video Card Overclocked
Xigmatek Aegir CPU Cooler Review on Technic3D
HIS Radeon HD 6850 1GB Video Card w/ 1120 Shaders Overclocked
Thermaltake Toughpower Grand TPG-750M Power Supply
Increase Your NAS UPNP Library with Symbolic Links @ OCModShop
AMD Radeon HD 6870 Video Card Review @ Benchmark Reviews
Lian Li Pitstop T1 Mini-ITX Spider Test Bench Review @ OCC
Antec LanBoy Air System Enclosure reviewed in Metku.net
SPIRE TherMax Eclipse II Cpu Cooler @ Rbmods
OCZ Vertex 2 40gb SSD @ DreamWare Computers
Sapphire HD6870 and Crossfire performance @ LanOC Reviews
Xigmatek Midgard White Knight Case Video Review @ eTeknix.com
HIS Radeon HD 6870 1GB Video Card in Crossfire
In Win Dragon Slayer Case Review @ OCModShop
AMD Radeon HD 6870 & HD 6850 Video Card Review
Accessories
Arctic K381 Multi-Functional Keyboard Review @ Hi Tech Legion
Software
Quick Review: Apple TV (2010) 2.0 Media Player
Quick Review: Prodigi PD-100N Media Player
AMD Catalyst 10.10 Windows 7 Driver Analysis
Editorials
#13 - Do I Have A HTPC? @ eTeknix.com
Contests
NZXT Fall Giveaway! @ Rbmods
HotHardware 10/25 Video Podcast and Contest Announcement - Win a Gaming Rig!
Electronics
Beauty and the Beast (1991) Blu-ray Movie Review
Games
DJ Hero 2 Xbox 360 Review