Reviews - Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 TOXIC 2GB review

[HEXUS]

But there's a twist.

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[Jimbo75]

Yep pretty fair review. I'm starting to wonder about Sapphire recently, it's like they've really slipped since XFX came on to AMD's side and forced prices down.

Not very impressed by this.

[OilSheikh]

Screwdriver slot to overclock?

Btw, cooler is umimpressive

[Jimbo75]

I agree, I remember Tarinder's last Toxic review was the same and the cooler was very "meh".

It looks like Sapphire is trying to get by on the name now without providing the quality they used to have. It's just not good enough and I'd recommend people look elsewhere. HIS IceQ is nice imo.

[Tunnah]

can we please get some previous gen numbers to use if anyone is planning to upgrade ?

[danroyle]

£15 less than the cheapest 6970 also. I'd pay the £15 for guaranteed extra cores and less hoop jumping

[kalniel]

Hexus have it right - they're waiting for the new cards so have to do something to try and keep places buying new SKUs.

[Zak33]

But there's more, folks, because this card is outfitted with a new type of rear bracket that, Sapphire says, enables more hot air to be exhausted out of the back. The premise is simple: just add more space for the air to escape from. It makes sense as the cooler is otherwise fully enclosed inside the plastic cover.

about time too....

I;'ve just gone from a 275GTX to a 6950 and while it's great, the cooler is NOT extracting air from my case.. not like the 260/275/280/285 range did.

I think the current crop of "twin fan but internal airflow in the case " has been a mistake.

[shaithis]

I;'ve just gone from a 275GTX to a 6950 and while it's great, the cooler is NOT extracting air from my case.. not like the 260/275/280/285 range did.

I think the current crop of "twin fan but internal airflow in the case " has been a mistake.

The thing is, what you can exhaust from those gaps is pathetic compared to what a few decently setup case fans will do.

I'd rather have my case, mobo and cpu running a couple of degrees warmer, then the gfx card 5-10c hotter.....when it's already by far the hottest PC component. I see the externally venting cards as great for SFF build but are otherwise just a way to make the gfx card run hotter then it needs to.

[scaryjim]

Unless I'm misreading the page badly, the bang-for-buck graph is wrong. You've substituted the bang-for-watt score of 0.78 in place of the bang-for-buck score of 0.58. The correct score puts the Toxic down near the bottom of the pack, a shade *under* the GTX570...

[scaryjim]

Screwdriver slot to overclock?

Erm.... no?

There's a microswitch to load up a second BIOS, otherwise overclocking is done via AMD Overdrive or another third party software of your choice. The big fill-port looking thing is ... designer fapping, maybe? I'm sure we saw it on another Sapphire card recently but I can't remember what it was for...

[elmondinio]

thats a nice card, i might just buy one if i see one 4 my new rig

[ray168]

looks okay, may upgrade if prices are not too expensive