OCNZ -- Sapphire R9800Pro is a quality built VGA card, with moderate overclocking potential. (based on our test sample). It is a good choice for those who are looking for an R9800Pro.

 

bit-tech -- Up until this morning though, we'd have agreed with that because the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1GB was selling for over £220 - it's hard to justify what amounts to a five percent performance improvement and a fancy cooler when the reference one isn't exactly disappointing. But with the price being realigned to just under £195, we think it's worth taking the punt if you've decided that the Radeon HD 4870 1GB is the right choice for you. What makes the choice difficult is that the Radeon HD 4870 1GB and GeForce GTX 260-216 are incredibly well matched not only on price, but also on performance across the board. Right now, the favour seems to have tipped AMD's way, but it could quite easily flip the other way when you consider that of the five benchmarks the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1GB Toxic won against the GeForce GTX 260-216, two of them were by less than five percent. What's more, it's quite conceivable that some of the newer titles that we'll be adding to our suite soon could go either way - neither the Radeon HD 4870 1GB nor GeForce GTX 260-216 are a bad choice at this price point, frankly.

Driverheaven -- Not everyone can afford a Conroe X6800 and an SLI system, so today we are covering the Sapphire X1650 pro card which is very reasonably priced at the low to mid range sector. Only question is, can this card power the newest games at a reasonable resolution?

Hexus -- AMD introduced its Radeon HD 2900 XT three months ago, and it pitched it as a value-orientated high-end part, with partners pricing their retail packages at between £250-£275. As normally happens with a new technology, supply firms up in the subsequent weeks, and the price, inevitably, drops. Now, three months on, Radeon HD 2900 XTs can be purchased for £230, so it's high time that we took a look at the largest AIB's offering - the Sapphire Radeon HD 2900 XT.

ASE Labs -- While the next generation of graphics cards from ATI are just around the corner, you can get some amazing performance with full open source support for a great price. Some of the readers might also be looking for a silent solution while having good performance and the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 Ultimate steps up to provide that. It combines a truly massive heatsink with the powerful 3870 GPU to create a fast and completely silent graphics card for your quiet PC.

Lost Circuits -- Once again, Sapphire is releasing a hidden jewel into the market, this time it is the X800 GTO2, a card based on the R480 GPU and boasting 1.6 ns GDDR3 --- and the entire thing sells for about US$ 200.-. From a marketing, logistics and legal standpoint, this is is only possible because officially the card is specked to run on 12 pipelines only at a core and memory speed of 400 and 490 MHz, respectively. In contrast to the X800 Pro series in which some cards could be modded to full 16 pipeline functionality by means of a BIOS flash along with the necessary bridging of blown substrate fuses, the current version only requires a BIOS update to live up to its fullest potential. In the best case, we were able to achieve approximately 70 % overall performance increase over the original configuration of the same, physically identical card. So what did we have to do for this other than selling our souls to the Sapphire aliens?

Driverheaven -- Today we will be taking a look at the new HIS and Sapphire 5970's and as they sent us two of the cards apiece we felt it would be a good time to to cover Crossfire X configurations - for those of you rich enough to be able to afford two of these monster graphics cards. We also overclock our watercooled Core i7 processor to 4.1 ghz and the memory to 1800mhz to mirror a real life environment for a potential customer of two of these high end boards - we want CPU limiting at a minimum.

Techgage -- Gaming on a budget isn't as difficult as it once was, thanks to superb offerings from both ATI and NVIDIA that go for a modest price. But, what about the sub-$100 crowd? We'll find that out here, at least from the ATI side of things, with Sapphire's HD 4670 GDDR4 and HD 4830. Both feature great efficiency, and believe it or not, great overclocking as well.