Based off of the RV670 chipset is the Sapphire Ultimate 3870 video card. This card many not be overclocked like the Toxic we reviewed a few weeks back. This means it won’t perform at the same level of the Toxic did, but the major thing the Ultimate has over the Toxic is silence. Combined with 512MB of GDDR4 and Shader 4.1, silence isn’t the only feature the card has that it can boast about. Just how well does it match up against the Toxic mode? Read on to find out. Testing Hardware and Software
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Testing Experiment |
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Intel Core2Duo E8400 (overclocked @ 4.0GHZ) |
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OCZ PC14000 Titanium |
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Thermalright Ultra 120 |
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Sapphire Toxic HD 3870 |
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Maxtor DiamondMax 10 100GB |
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HP DVD740 drive |
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Ultra ProX 800 power supply |
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Noctua cooling fan |
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Testing Software |
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Futuremark 06 |
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F.E.A.R. |
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Prey |
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Far Cry |
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Crysis |
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Half Life: Episode 2 |
We used GPU-Z to show core and ram speeds.
Pushing Sapphire and the Ultimate
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