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SAPPHIRE AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE Graphics Card

4.1 out of 5 stars 167 customer reviews
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Product Dimensions 11.5 x 3.5 x 6.5 inches
Item Weight 1.5 pounds
Shipping Weight 1.5 pounds
ASIN B005C8RTTU
Item model number 100314-3L
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4.1 out of 5 stars 167 customer reviews

4.1 out of 5 stars
Best Sellers Rank #918 in Electronics > Computers & Accessories > Computer Components > Graphics Cards
Date first available at Amazon.com July 12, 2011

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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat graphic card that you won't regret
By Dan InGold on September 15, 2011
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Here is my computer setting: Dell XPS 8300 i5-2300 2.8GHZ, 6G RAM, 128GB SSD, Integrated graphics. I played Starcraft II a lot. The game is slow even if I use medium graphic settings (resolution:1600X900). Went through a few forums, I settled with this card. Here is what I find:

Pros:
1: It is very very quiet. my power supply is 460W. It is plenty for this card.
2: The windows experience index score is now 7.8 (Integrated graphics 5.2)
3: Starcraft II (utra high graphic settings): FPS is between 54-101. Average:75 (Using the integrated graphics, I only get 14-30.)
4: It has two 6pin power connectors I don't need them as my power supply have them). It also comes with a VGA to DVI adaptor. This is really handy.
5: Surprise and bonus: There is no description on Amazon site that this actually include a free game: DIRT3: .
6: Great build quality
7: 3D experience (I have not tested yet)

Cons:
1: This is large card. You want to make sure you motherboard has enough space for it.

Tips:
This can be personal experience. When I first installed the card, I noticed the fan noise immediately and it could not be recognized and my monitors showed no signals. So I plugged my monitors back to the integrated graphic card and installed the drivers. Then I plug my monitors to the graphic card and powered on the machine. Then fan noise was disappeared and it became very very quiet. I saw signals in the monitors. Windows 7 started to recognize the new cards and install the drivers for it. The resolution still did not look good. After a restart, my two monitors were recognized and was set to their maximum resolution automatically.

Overall, I really love this card. This is great graphic card that you won't regret buying it.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsBest video card "bang for your buck"
By Phobos on June 15, 2012
Ownership-1 year+...

This card was a winner right out of the starting gate. Installed, booted, installed driver, rebooted, and wow!

This is my second Sapphire card, my first was an X850 pro I got in 2006 and is working today. That's speaking for Sapphire reliability. I have had other video cards die in much less time.

Now this card, the HD 6870. There is hardly a bad thing to say. I dont get the super high fan sound that others have talked about. My temps idle around 100-110 F and hard gaming 135-150 F. I have been able to run Ubuntu 12.04 pretty good with it.

Ubuntu 12.04 Working good... After first release of 12.04 there were some random crashes. Then a few weeks later using Ubuntu update it seems to AOK. Waiting for Steam on linux.

Win7 AOK. [remembering the bad driver days]

Win8 AOK Performance wise may be better than Win7

I got this for 145 on sale in '11 and did get my rebate...6 months later in a debit card. That was lame... 6 months, but I got it.

Anyway I can't say how much I like Sapphire. Competitive pricing excellent performance and I don't worry about it puking like my powercolor did after 2 years.

I have done some benchmarking on this and here are the results following.

Note: I do my benchmarks like i play my games, I leave everything on the pc. So I don't strip my other drivers and 150 programs off before a test.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 stars2nd SAPPHIRE AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB
By John D on January 2, 2012
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This card runs well as long as it's working properly.
I replaced my old Radeon 4890 Power-color edition and there was a slight improvement from that when it came to running particular graphic enhancements in games.
I mainly bought it so I would have DX11 since my old card didn't.

This is the second 6870 I have had to get, the first one was DOA, Amazon let me swap it for a new one. And after 2 MONTHS the card started having major graphical issues, random colored pixels on the desktop, games were not even playable. I tried the 'baking method' as a last ditch effort to salvage the thing, this did not improve or worsen the card.

I find it hard to believe I got two lemons one right after the other. I have contacted Sapphire and in the process of returning it for a replacement.
I have already bought a new Nvidia EVGA GTX 560ti 448 Core Classified and it is running soundly.
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5.0 out of 5 starsWorks great in a Mac Pro
By Greg on February 10, 2012
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I replaced my aging GeForce 8800 GT in my Mac Pro (2008). It outputs video without any flashing but doesn't function correctly or display video at boot.

After using Netkas Romcreator with the EFI rom, and then flashing the card in OS X 10.7 with Zues Flash (2.3), I was able to flash the card and it functions natively in OS X. Works in both my 10.6.8 and 10.7 and of course Windows 7. Video performance is good, card is pretty quiet. However Mac users will lose functionality of the top DVI port but the other ports should work fine. Its nice being able to play most games at 2560 x 1600.

Quite happy with my purchase, its a good cheap upgrade and has put a little more life into my aging Mac Pro.
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