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Today we used Catalyst Control Center for the overclocking results. We asked Sapphire for an updated version of TriXX but sadly we had
We were able to maximise both sliders to 1050 mhz on the core and 1450mhz on the memory (5.8Gbps effective). We think there is more headroom on this core, but until we get a software tool which can open up the scale a little more we can't tell.
The increase on the clocks managed to push the score higher by 634 points, as shown above. At these speeds, the card is less than 200 points behind the GTX580, which is an incredible result.
Excellent, nice little card, I do think it will cost more than £200 however as even some of the basic cards are 195.
The XFX cards look much nicer IMO, but the cooler on the Sapphire cards is well thought out. Every card has a different cooler construction too, XFX tend to use the same cooler and heatpipe config between a whole range of cards, which works well on the mid or low level card, but not so good on the higher end model.
Nice lookin card, again from sapphire
If one fan would break, you will have to buy a new full heatsink solution because is impossible get a replacement of one fan. Bad for Sapphire.