- I had a 4870x2 and the card had been overheating and putting some nasty artifacts on the screen. With me in need of a new card and knowing that DX11 games are going to become more common now (Metro 2033, Dirt 2, Call of Pripyat, etc.) I figured I'd go out hunting for a DX11 card and see what I could come away with. After a lot of comparison shopping I decided to get this Sapphire 6950.I was not disappointed.I installed the February 2011 drivers and it worked fine in Crysis 2 for several hours on Extreme. Not only that, but even under full load the temp floated around 62-70c and idled at around 40c. Combine a whisper quiet fan with that and you have to imagine my shock when I've had nothing but…
- This card is a tremendous value for the price. I replaced crossfired 3870s with one of these Sapphire 6950s and swapped out an aging Intel Q6600 processor with a Q9550 and overclocked the processor to just over 3.5 ghtz. This card has stomped every game I've thrown at it on max settings. My old cards choked on The Witcher with the graphics options turned up. This card plays it and my other games (Dirt 2, etc) maxed. It runs very cool, although my tower has 11 seperate fans (including the GPU, CPU and Power supply fans), in it so there isn't a whole lot of heat to get trapped. I flashed the card with a 6950 shader unlock. I initially did the straight 6970 bios, but switched to a shader unlock…
- PCI-Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
- 256-bit DDR5 memory interface
- Microsoft DirectX 11 Support
- Microsoft Windows 7 Support
- ATI Eyefinity Technology, support up to 3 displays
