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The Sapphire HD5670 Flex Edition ships in a brightly coloured box, with yet another hot futuristic lady on the front. She is locked and loaded and even had time to put on some makeup. What a gal.
No free games with this bundle, but you do get a software disc, literature on the product, a VGA converter cable, Sapphire Select Club details, and the passive HDMI converter cable.
The HD5670 Flex Edition ships with a customised Arctic Cooling heatsink and fan. It is a modest design, but these cards run cool anyway and as you might remember Sapphire released a passively cooled ‘Ultimate Edition‘ HD5670 last year.
The card offers twin DVI ports, HDMI and Displayport out. All four can connect to a panel and deliver a SLS (Single Large Surface) work area. Obviously if you want four screens and not three, then one of the monitors has to be DisplayPort capable. The card requires no external power feed, it gets enough power from the PCI-E slot.
Removing the Arctic Cooling cooler is a straightforward process. The card is using Hynix H5GQ2H24MFA chips which are rated for 1.6V. These are high quality memory chips which we have seen used on higher end AMD video cards in the past.
The card is running at reference speeds of 775mhz core and 1000mhz via the GDDR5 memory connected to a 128bit memory interface.
Even a 3 screen setup is a pipedream for me, but I can see this card behind used in a lot of design studios.
I like the idea of the flex cards but why on earth aren’t AMD doing this without Sapphire having to make customised products? Is there additional circuitry involved? obviously there is, but it seems like such a weird thing for AMD not to include. displayport monitors are a lot of cash.
Well I wont be buying this card, but its just made me part cash with cyberlink power dvd 10 ultra. my system might be more responsive with it running instead of crappy WMP.
Well its good to see they went to arctic cooling for the cooler. wish more companies would do that.
This is exactly what I want. I spend most of my working life video editing and ive already persuaded the boss to get me two more screens. Shall make sure we order a couple for the offices.
Decent enough card, but will anybody buy a card from the last generation in 2011? might be hard for Sapphire to sell this as people all want 6 series cards.
I agree that AMD need to do a card like this themselves, clearly isnt that difficult,.
I liked the flex 6870, decent gaming performance and you can add three screens. This would be ideal for workstations in a design or editing environment. I think you sold it well Zardon considering the relatively weak gaming performance,. certainly worked well with the fusion mobo.
Id actually get this for my workstation. I dont game on it, and id like the out of the box screen support. I opted for an ilyama screen at 200 quid, another 2 wouldn’t cost that much for the deskspace.
Wonder why they opted for a 5000 series card? Why not aim for the 6970 or even 6950? 6870 isnt a bad card, but even it can struggle, especially with 3 screens.