SAPPHIRE Toxic Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100225TXSR
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I bought two cards for Crossfire. They were packaged well and complete with extra adapters. They seem to run cool in my box without add-on cooling equipment, even in running 3DMark06 and the Vista PCMark Advantage64 testing software. Getting a 13,646 3dMark06 score with zero adjusting and a 4,690 PCMark Vantage 64 score. Not sure if that's good or not, but Team Fortress 2 looks great!
Download the latest Catalyst Control Panel application and video drivers. I had a hard time getting the second card recognized and had to re-install drivers, do a driver clean-up in Safe Mode and install a clean Catalyst set and cards individually. The directions to Crossfire the cards weren't helpful but I found good directions in techpowerup forum.
Intel 6600 quad CPU, Gigabyte GA-38T-Dq6 motherboard, 4 GB RAM Kingston 2x1GB DDR3 1333, two Radeon Sapphire Toxic 3870 512MB DDR4 Ram video cards in Crossfire, Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.0 HD in Raid 0, Samsung SH-203N SATA DVD burner, Edimax EW-7128G wireless LAN, Logitech X-530 70-watt sound system, Logitech G-11 gaming keyboard, Samsung 226BW 22" LCD monitor, running on MS Vista 64-bit OS.
Occupies only a single slot, excellent performance, no driver issues whatsoever in Vista Ultimate x64, fan speed it automatically controlled.
Fan gets annoyingly loud when playing games. It has a high-pitched whine that reminds me of the old air-powered sirens that used to be on police cars. I find it hard to tolerate. Looking for a passive cooling solution to replace the stock fan.
I like my PCs to run quiet, but I wanted a video card that would only occupy 1 slot. I should have sacrificed a slot and got a video card with a larger heatsink, possibly the Powercolor with the completely passive one. The slot next to my graphics card is currently unoccupied anyway, and it will probably remain that way. The Sapphire Toxic performs exactly as it should, but I just can't stand that darn fan. At least it is only loud when I am playing games. Cools down very quickly after exiting a game, as the fan spins down rather rapidly. At low speeds it is inaudible.
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Manufacturer Contact Info
Website: https://www.sapphiretech.com/en
Support Phone: 1-909-594-3128
Support Email: tech@althonmicro.com
Features & Details
- 512MB 256-Bit GDDR4
- Core Clock 800 MHz
- 2 x DVI 1 x HDMI (via Adapter)
- 320 Stream Processors
- PCI Express 2.0 x16
Specifications
| Brand | SAPPHIRE |
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| Series | Toxic |
| Model | 100225TXSR |
| Interface | PCI Express 2.0 x16 |
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| Chipset Manufacturer | AMD |
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| GPU | Radeon HD 3870 |
| Core Clock | 800 MHz |
| Stream Processors | 320 Stream Processors |
| Effective Memory Clock | 1152MHz (2.3GHz effective) |
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| Memory Size | 512MB |
| Memory Interface | 256-Bit |
| Memory Type | GDDR4 |
| DirectX | DirectX 10.1 |
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| OpenGL | OpenGL 2.0 |
| HDMI | 1 x HDMI (via Adapter) |
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| DVI | 2 x DVI |
| TV-Out | HDTV / S-Video Out |
| RAMDAC | 400MHz |
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| Max Resolution | 2560 x 1600 |
| CrossFireX Support | Yes |
| Cooler | With Fan Vapour Chamber Technology (VCT) |
| Power Connector | 6-Pin |
| Dual-Link DVI Supported | Yes |
| Windows Vista | Certified for Windows Vista |
| HDCP Ready | Yes |
| Features | Supporting the new CrossFireX technology Vapour Chamber Technology (VCT) |
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| Package Contents | 100225TXSR Driver Disk User Manual Software Disk HDTV Cable Power Cable DVI to VGA/D-sub Adapter DVI to HDMI Adapter S-Video to Composite Adapter CrossFire Bridge |
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| First Listed on Newegg | February 26, 2008 |
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