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The retail box is a rather mystical design with a blue futuristic sorcerer on the front – perhaps he is getting ready for a night with World Of Warcraft and has gone overboard with the body paints.
The retail box lists all the features and also details the fact that it comes bundled with Arcsoft SimHD software.
The bundle contains a user manual, ATI Crossfire bridge, DVI to VGA adapter as well as two 4pin Molex to 6 pin PCIe power adapters for those with older power supplies. There is also a driver CD and a copy of ArcSoft's SimHD which is a plug in for the excellent ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre – one of my favourite programs on the PC. This plug in offers adaptive scaling for DVD video and the application also offers full video acceleration for AMD video cards.
No overclocking utilities are supplied with the bundle however there are free alternatives online if you know what you are looking for – we discuss this later in the review.
Bloody Nora batman, thats one scary overclock ! I snagged those apps, thanks for the heads up
I love Sapphires modded cards, those coolers rock my world. Wouldnt it be cool if AMD actually released these from now on with all their new mid/high end ranges?
Absolutely no chance they would be on reference cards, they cost too much. I like the thinking though. Hey with the Intel story that was on here a few days ago and the new reference coolers they are looking at, maybe the whole industry is shifting views on this?
Hats off to Sapphire again,was going to buy this but I held off for a bit even though I read a few good reviews about it. This is a wicked board. £230!! just ordered one
£230 is a wicked price. the ordinary card is £240 in a local store here.
Good price, would like to see CF figures for these. £460 for two of them, would be a good head to head against a GTX480 🙂
I think the 480 GTX would get its ass handed to it, then some, but would be interesting for sho.
I think the 5770 is better value though, ive seen some for £120 online, two of them would beat one of these.
Anyone seen a good price for one of these in Canada?
£349.99 on newegg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102881&cm_re=hd5850_toxic-_-14-102-881-_-Product
Canada? anyone know? best online place to buy?
Great review, thanks KG
Loved the review, thanks Gurus
Sapphire are great, wish more makers would use vapor x style cooling.
XFX are doing one which I think is sourced from the same company. check out this review. http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/xfx-hd5870-black-edition-review/
Read this review last night and didnt have time to comment. Its a great product as many reviews have already testifed to. Was interesting personally to see the drain figures at the wall.
not much stock available where I live. unfortunately as a bud of mine wants it.