It gives the card a strop industrial look that should look good in any case. The overall look of the new design is, in my opinion, a lot better. The Vapor-X chamber uses the same idea of a heatpipe to pull the heat away from all of the hotspots on the GPU and get the heat to the heatpipes, then to the fins/fans to cool things down. Internally they have rearranged everything also match the relocated fan and to include their vapor-x chamber. The fan is noticeably larger and located in the middle of the card this time around. Sapphire went with their VaporX heatsink on the Flex, a little different from a reference heatsink. Sapphire cuts out the middle man with their FleX series of cards and builds that adapter into the card saving you the money and more importantly making the jump to Eyefinity that much easier. AMD on the other hand will let you run Eyefinity with one video card, but you will have to pick up a $30 DisplayPort to HDMI adapter unless you are running DisplayPort monitors. With Nvidia this requires running SLI, even if you aren’t looking for the highest settings or performance. Because of that it’s nice to know that if you pick up a couple extra monitors you can be gaming in no time on them all at once. We have even seen it trickle down to our LAN events and on our forums with a few people who have been sporting triple monitor setups from both AMD and Nvidia. Multi monitor gaming has been growing slowly as LCD Monitors become cheaper and cheaper. Along with all of the adapters and cables you will get a driver installation disc, a quick installation guide, and a little information on their Sapphire Select Club. Of course you also get a flexible crossfire adapter, I hope one of these days we see a crossfire ribbon cable that is in a more appealing color like black or blue, the current color can be an eyesore in some situations. You get a six foot long HDMI cable, Mini DP to DP Adapter, HDMI To DVI Adapter, DVI to VGA Adaptor, and two 4 pin Molex to 6 pin adapters for those who don’t have enough plugs on their power supply. One of the great things about FleX series cards is the collection of adapters and cables included with the cards and this one is no different. The card sits inside of a formed cardboard tray, inside of a bubble wrap static free bag with a piece of foam keeping the HD6950 FleX from moving around. Inside there is a second cardboard box that has the card right on top when opened. Around back each of those features has a more in depth explanation in case you have any questions. Sapphire’s packaging is clear and easy to read with the model name on the front in a large font and all of the cards features along the bottom. The metallic black and blue style that we have seen on past FleX cards for the packaging is back once again. GPU acceleration support for Microsoft Office 2010 Dolby® TrueHD and DTSHD Master Audio TM SupportĢ4. Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay™ technology including memory clocksĢ3. HDMI 1.4a support with Deep Color, 7.1 High Bitrate Audio and 3D Stereoscopic supportĢ1. AMD Advanced Parallel Processing Technologyġ8. AMD Power Tune Technology-dynamically optimized performanceġ3. With the use of a DisplayPort monitor or Active adapter.ġ0. Requirement of DisplayPort monitors or Active DP adapters, and can support up to 5 displays Sapphire FleX Technology: SAPPHIRE Flex Technology supports 3 displays without the HDMI 1.4a 1.8 meter cable x 1 (Full Retail only)ĭisplay Port : 2560x1600 Display Support: 5 Displays ( 5 x1920x1200 in SLS mode)ġ. Windows XP(32Bit/64Bit) Windows Vista(32Bit/64Bit) Windows Media Center Edition 2005, – For an ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 6900 graphics card, an ATIĬrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics – Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive – Installation software requires CD-ROM drive – Certified power supplies are recommended. – 500 Watt or greater power supply with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors – PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard Talk about killing two birds with one stone, let’s take a look at the Sapphire FleX HD 6950 2Gb. This also happens to be the first HD6950 to come through our office, finally giving us a chance to check out the performance of AMD’s third in command. That’s because Sapphire is hoping to give everyone the option to go Flex no matter the budget or performance requirements. The proverbial ink has hardly dried on our review of Sapphires HD6870 Flex and we are already introducing another member of the Flex family.
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