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Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 Toxic 1GB GDDR5 PCIe

Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 Toxic 1GB GDDR5 PCIe
  • Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 Toxic 1GB GDDR5 PCIe
  • Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 Toxic 1GB GDDR5 PCIe
  • Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 Toxic 1GB GDDR5 PCIe
  • Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 Toxic 1GB GDDR5 PCIe
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Based on 11 reviews
  • Excellent:
    9
  • Good:
    1
  • Average:
    1
  • Bad:
    0

Reviews

  • By BeHardware on April 13, 2011

    With the Radeon HD 6850 TOXIC, Sapphire is marketing a factory overclocked model at the price most other manufacturers are charging for their basic models. It has a big power stage which will prevent overheating during extreme overclocking, but it does...

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  • By Legit Reviews on April 04, 2011

    Even though it runs a bit hotter than the other cards we looked at it still performed just as well as they did at its factory over clocked settings. Some others said they were able to get this card over the 1GHz mark; I wasn't able to but it...

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  • By Fudzilla on March 04, 2011

    Our previous review covered Saphire Radeon HD 6850 running at reference clocks, whereas our today’s test subject is Sapphire HD 6850 Toxic. As the name suggests, Toxic cards come with Toxic cooling but Sapphire surprised us by using HD...

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  • By TechRadar on December 13, 2010

    The vanilla Radeon HD 6850 was the more relevant of the two latest AMD cards, but can Sapphire's HD 6850 Toxic edition make it exciting too?There's one thing you can't criticise Sapphire's Toxic series of overclocked graphics cards for:...

    70
  • By Overclock3D on December 01, 2010

    We've long held the belief that graphics cards coolers are deliberately shoddy to allow the partners of nVidia and AMD to produce something special that would bring them the brand loyalty that everyone from Tesco to Ferrari seek.However, conversely...

    93
  • By Techgage on November 24, 2010

    Today's GPU landscape is good for those looking to purchase, as both AMD and NVIDIA have some great offerings at a variety of price-points. Things will continue to get even more interesting next month with AMD's launch of the Radeon HD 6900...

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  • By LanOC Reviews on November 18, 2010

    With the reintroduction of their TriXX overclocking utility Sapphire has given every HD6850 and HD6870 owner the chance to up the performance on their card. Even with that there is still a need for pre-overclocked cards for those who are looking to...

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  • By Fudzilla on November 17, 2010

    Sapphire HD 6850 Toxic Edition is the first Sapphire-flavored card from the new AMD HD 6000 series. The HD 6850 Toxic Edition boasts original Sapphire cooling and the card is overclocked for extra performance. The HD 6850 Toxic's GPU runs at 820MHz...

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  • By Overclockers Club on November 15, 2010

    The Toxic Edition video cards from Sapphire have always had that extra something special that sets them apart from the crowd. That something is usually a deviation from the reference design, which includes PCB improvements as well as better component...

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  • By Kitguru.net on November 15, 2010

    AMD’s HD6850 series was released to a warm public reception, combining great performance, low power drain and very competitive pricing. KitGuru recently reviewed the XFX HD6850 Black Edition and today we are looking at Sapphire’s overclocked...

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