Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 OC 2 GB DDR5 HDMI/DVI-I/Dual Mini DP PCI-Express Graphics Card 11200-01-20G
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- 1 x Dual-Link DVI
- 1 x HDMI (with 3D)
- 2 x Mini-DisplayPort
- DisplayPort 1.2
- AMD HD3D Technology
- AMD Eyefinity 2.0
- Enhanced Multi-GPU Capabilities
- PCI Express 3.0
Offering excellent performance at an even keener price, SAPPHIRE HD 7850 OC shares the features of the HD 7000 family with Dual-X cooling technology, a highly efficient multi-heatpipe cooler with dual fans providing quiet and very cool operation during normal operating conditions, and superb cooling performance even under extreme load.
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Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 OC 2 GB DDR5 HDMI/DVI-I/Dual Mini DP PCI-Express Graphics Card 11200-01-20G
List Price: $ 269.99
Price:
OUTSTANDING !,
I did some extensive research regarding bang for your buck in my choices of components
for a major hardware upgrade to my old desktop machine and the Sapphire HD 7850 OC edition
seemed to warrant a closer look. I installed this card on a new Gigabyte Z68 motherboard along
with a I5 2500K CPU, Coolermaster 212+ cooler and 8Gbs of Kingston Hyper x memory. The case
was Micro ATX so I needed a card that would perform well in a small case and the Sapphire does that
and then some. It runs quieter and cooler than any ATI/AMD graphics card Ive owned, so quiet in fact
that I had to double check to see if the fans were even running. Even during game play I seldom hear
the fans running on this card and temps at idle and under full load have been 26c and 58c respectively
which I find impressive.Im getting excellent FPS on every game Ive thrown at it and I haven,t seen
this cards full potential yet. AMD Overdrive allows for even higher clock speeds and it runs stable
even when maxed out which puts its performance well into the range of cards costing much more. Judging by
its performance at stock (which is already overclocked) I doubt you would ever need more graphics power
for some time to come. At about half the weight and only 2/3 the size of my old 4890 it performs around twice
twice as good. If your looking at getting the 7850 I highly recommend this Sapphire HD 7850 OC edition
for its smaller form factor, higher clock speeds and lower temps.
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|Performs well, but it has some bugs.,
The card runs nice and cool. Even after playing Diablo 3 for a while (at max settings) it worked well. Albeit some issues with Diablo 3 itself and vsync.
The price is excellent for such a well performing card… BUT… I did however find some annoying issues with it, which shouldn’t be a problem out of the box, but unfortunately are.
The main one so far is that the screen would flicker when browsing or using some low GPU usage applications. When browsing Amazon for instance, the screen would quickly flicker on/off. At first I thought it was a faulty mouse scroll wheel, but it isn’t. It’s a bug with the idle 2D clock speed of the card apparently.
Given that I intend to use the card for more than just gaming, this can get rather annoying, hence the 3 star rating. If Sapphire release a BIOS fix, I’d happily give this card 5 stars!
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|Awesome.,
I am satisfied with this product so far. The performance is great, BF3 on ultra runs great and I have not had any problems with other games as of yet. Easy to install and very quiet, this card is definitely worth the cost.
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