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Pre-overclocked to a blazing 970MHz. Can Sapphire's TOXIC be a thorn in GTX 560's side?
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Pre-overclocked to a blazing 970MHz. Can Sapphire's TOXIC be a thorn in GTX 560's side?
The Sapphire HD 6870 Toxic seems to be a decent card. I don't like loud video cards but I don't regularly run Furmark :) Now if they can keep the price down!
Factory overclocked card make little sense unless they are significantly cheaper than the non-overclocked card above it. If the price difference is small why would anyone choose a 'super over clock edition' on the limits of it's performance to one with stock clocks and headroom. If they sold this card at stock clocks with the upgraded cooling for a small premium then I would consider it. I've always liked the vapour-x and toxic cards but never bought one and by the pricing decision (OC = profit) probably never will.
Resounding "meh" for all of these overclocked factory cards tbh. You have to wonder would we really be missing anything had no cards been released from either AMD or nVidia in the past 3-4 months? I doubt it.
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Yeah you're right, apart from them there's nothing interesting :P
I included those cards. The 570 and 580 are just Fermi not done badly, and Cayman was interesting only because it was a new arch. Performance and feature wise, they are all yawners and it's about to be capped by silly double-chip solutions from both teams.
Just roll on 28nm.