Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Toxic Vapor-X 512MB PCIe 11133-06-40R
October 2008
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Published: 2009-03-11
Bottomline: Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD 4870 card features non-reference dual-slot cooling and higher core and memory clocks. The cooling based on Vapor Chamber technology ensures that the 780MHz core stays up to 28°C cooler than reference 750MHz core. We’re looki...
Good: Fast GDDR5 Memory, Large Cooler, Excellent performance, Looks Great, Build quality, Price
Bad: Cooling solution could use some work, Availability
Bottomline: I have to admit, at first I thought that this card would be much like the rest with a slight performance increase and a better cooling solution. But through testing and benchmarking, this card has impressed me with a sizable performance increase, a g...
Bottomline: Sapphires HD 4870 Toxic card accomplishes what it sets out to do. The performance of this card is phenominal, as it holds its own and even surpasses its closest competitor: and it does it for a few hundred dollars less. PC games are finicky. Some p...
Abstract: Sapphire Toxic HD 4870 512MB ReviewWe’re huge fans of ATI’s Radeon 4800 series GPUs. Both the Radeon 4850 and 4870 rewrote the rules when it comes to performance at their respective price segments, forcing NVIDIA to slash prices on their ...
Good: Great Performance, Overclocking Ease, DX 10.1, Nice Bundle, Ease of Install, Crossfire Ready, Good Cooling Solution, Competitive With Competitors, Price, Quality
Bad: Exhausts Hot Air into Chassis, No Game in Bundle, ATI Overdrive Software Limits OC
Bottomline: While the GTX-260 turned in better numbers in basically everything we put it through, during gaming we couldnt tell the difference between it and the Sapphire HD 4870 Toxic except of one or two exceptions when the Toxic tossed in a little stutter eve...
Abstract: When the first 4870s came out, I said their only real competition was other 4870s. This is somewhat less true today, as NVIDIA has effectively countered this series by dropping prices on their GTX 200s. But theres still very little differentiation amo...
Bottomline: As all of the many tests we ran should show, the Sapphire 4870 Toxic Edition is quite impressive. It looks sharp and the numbers it puts up look even better. I think without question this card is in the same ballpark as Nvidia’s 200 series of card...
Good: Drastically reduces noise, Temperature doesnt rise much, Udating is a simple process
Bad: Card should have shipped this way, , Please drop by the Bigbruin.com Forum and feel free to post any comments or questions., , « Back :: 1 :: 2 :: Home »
Bottomline: There are many ways to adjust the noise produced by a video cards fan, and the official driver packages are finally starting to include controls themselves. For a quick and easy way to tame the roar of the Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD4870 512MB graphics c...
Abstract: The Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Toxic is not only special for its factory overclock, but its Vapor-X cooler is very powerful and clearly is a superior cooling solution. The Radeon HD 4870 Toxic with its 780/1000MHz speeds was faster than the reference Rad...
Good: Heat Pipe Cooler, Pre OCed, Able to get even more OCing out of it, Included extras
Bad: Plain Black Cooler
Bottomline: I have used the Sapphire HD 4870 Toxic for 3 weeks straight now and well it has been a wonderful experience. I have not had one fault or found a flaw under normal use and even under heavy over clocked gaming. The temperature of the card running at idle...
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