Since the bulk of PC usage for many users is simple web/social network interaction and media playback it’s good to see a number of manufacturers opting for smaller and energy efficient designs. The Sapphire Edge HD does the familiar Intel Atom and NVIDIA ION dance which means there won’t be any high-end gaming going on […]
All of that lovely overclocking trial and error process you run through to get the most out of your graphics card is, no doubt, lost on somebody that just wants a fast gaming experience right out of the box. The Sapphire HD6850 TOXIC graphics card comes out of the box with some beefy tweaks to […]
A reference design is a reference design meaning all things are pretty much equal regardless of what manufacturer you’re looking at so you’re going to be choosing your fancy new AMD Radeon HD 6870 based on price, warranty, software bundle, or by non-reference cooler which seemingly showed up out of nowhere to catch your eye. […]
Building a home theater PC means making a few concessions here and there in order to enjoy your movies and music without an insane amount of noise coming from your setup. The SAPPHIRE Ultimate HD5550 uses a passive cooling solution which means you have one less component to worry about silencing. LANOC has the details: […]
The majority of home theater PC users like their movies loud and their HTPCs extremely quiet which is why they invest in things like sound dampening material and large slow spinning fans. Sapphire’s Radeon 5550 Ultimate Video Card trumps any silencing measure by operating completely passively so there’s one less whining fan to worry about […]
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The majority of graphics chips tend to go from cradle to grave housed in the same PCB design the chip manufacturer created for it. There’s very little incentive to create something new unless there are obvious cost or performance benefits. The Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic Edition fancies itself a performance option with its new […]
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There are two tiers of graphics cards out there, those that are worthy of overclocking and those that aren’t. Architecture differences, namely memory bandwidth, are the biggest roadblock to overclocking effectiveness. TweakTown has a look at how well the Sapphire Radeon HD 5670 handles some increased clock speeds and it’s not looking so hot: You’re […]
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Putting together a gaming rig used to mean laying down a rather large chunk of cash for the best components that would give you an advantage over the competition…or in some cases just to run that new game that requires insane system resources. Thankfully the mid-range isn’t too far off from the high-end nowadays. The […]
Graphics cards tend to be very temperature sensitive which puts a bit of a crimp in the overclocking and tweaking plans of many of use out there, reference coolers just can’t seem to keep up. TestSeek Labs has a look at the Sapphire Vapor-X Radeon HD 5750 which does away with the reference design in […]
Read more Sapphire Vapor-X Radeon HD 5750 piles on the cooling performance
When a new graphics chip lineup is launched there’s usually quite a few chips that aren’t quite up to the task for running at the insanely high speeds of the top end so they do a bit of tinkering and make them suitable for the lower end of the market. It might seem a little […]
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High end graphics cards usually come with a stock cooler design that is capable of handling the sort of heat the monsters put out, unfortunately they only do enough to maintain GPUs at a safe operating temperature.Hardware Canucks has a…
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