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 Box  Box rear  Box open Sapphire packaged their HD 5870 in a red box with the Sapphire logo on the top left hand side of the box. The new mascot is to the right of the Sapphire logo. A sticker proclaiming Dirt 2 coupon inside and 1GB of GDDR5 memory is to the right of the heroine. Battlestations Pacific, and the major features of the card are listed on the bottom of the box. Moving to the rear of the box has a list of the Product Highlights and a list of the features of the card and what’s included in the box. Opening the box we see that Sapphire has included a full copy of Battlestations Pacific, a coupon for Colin McRae’s Dirt 2, a User manual, a Driver DVD and the hardware adapters to turn any power supply into one suitable for the HD 5870. A DVI to VGA adapter and a Crossfire cable round out the included bundle.  Drivers  Drivers  Drivers  Drivers ATI has released new drivers for the HD 5870 that are specific to this card. The Catalyst drivers on their website have the name HD 5870 drivers and are a little different than the standard drivers ATI offers for their cards. The 3D submenu allows you to change the AA setting, the AA Mode, the AF, and the MipMap settings. The AA Mode is where you determine if you want to use Multi-sampling or Super-Sampling on the anti-aliasing.  No AA  MS AA  SS AA Contents:
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