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Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 Vapor-X Review

Sun, 2011-03-13 23:36 -- Elric Phares

Sapphire HD 6870 Vapor-X

  • Sapphire Select Club
  • Driver CD
  • 2 6-pin power to Molex connectors
  • Mini-HDMI to HDMI Cable
  • HDMI Cable
  • CrossfireX
  • DVI to VGA cable
  • Quick Installation Guide

Sapphire bundles their new card inside a nice white box which they use for their Vapor-X cards. The front of the box has the Sapphire logo on the upper left hand corner along with a sticker for their Award winning system cooling design (Vapor-X) below that. The background shows an ice field with a penguin standing on a block of ice.

The name of the card is in the center of the box front with 1GB of GDDR5 and Sapphire’s TriXX overclocking prominently featured next to that. The bottom has a list of the major features of the HD 6870 including Radeon Graphics, AMD Vision, DirectX 11 and more. The back of the box has the product highlights and features explained along with a group of awards from various publications.

Opening the box we find that Sapphire has as always included a box within the box. The card itself is placed inside a cardboard tray on the top with an anti-static bag protecting the card during shipment and when taking it outside of the box.  The bundle itself consists of two 6-pin to Molex adapters, a CrossfireX bridge, the driver DVD containing the drivers and Sapphire’s TriXX overclocking utility a DVI to VGA adapter a mini-HDMI to HDMI cable and a HDMI cable.

Sapphire Select Club is for owners of Sapphire based video cards. It features games, contests and support for your Sapphire graphics products including winning copies of Driver Cleaner as the latest contest. To join SSC Gold, simply register your new video card and you will be eligible to win or participate in offers contests, free games and more. It is a value added bonus to purchasing a new Sapphire graphics card.

If you are looking for a HD 6870, that runs cool, is overclockable and yet still affordable, the Sapphire Vapor X hits the spot.

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