- Now i've only had the card for a little while now, about 3 weeks, but so far it has been a wonderful GPU. I'm very pleased with its performance in everything i've run with it.The card is huge, make sure it will fit in your case before a purchase. Be aware the card itself is 10.3 inches long, Amazon lists it as over 12 but that is in reference to the box it comes in, not the card itself. The card is also rather heavy, as you would expect for something so large, even though my case has plastic fasteners that would secure it in place I still had to use screws to keep it from sagging and putting pressure on the pins.The only concern I had with this card was approximately one week after installed,…
- Like John Smiley, I bought this to drive my late-2009 27" iMac in target display mode. I can report that it works perfectly. I have it driving three displays -- mini displayport (iMac) and two DVI outputs. Games perform perfectly on maximum detail at the full resolution of the iMac.You might wonder why this is a five star rating. It's been a long and frustrating road for those of us trying to use the target display mode. There were a couple of really-old-generation cards that could do it. Due to some kind of flaw in the 5xxx series, only the 5870 could do it, and that was just too much to pay for a card that wouldn't be used to its full capabilities.These 6870 cards perform almost as well…
- Chipset: Radeon HD6870 Engine Clock: 900 MHz
- Video Memory: 1GB DDR5 Memory Clock: 4.2 GHz Memory Interface: 256-bit
- Bus: PCI-Express 2.1 x16 RAMDAC: 400 MHz Max. Resolution: 2560 x 1600
- Connectors: Dual DVI; HDMI; 2x Mini DisplayPort Thermal: Fansink Support Microsoft Windows 7
- Support HDCP - High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection Support Microsoft DirectX 11 500 Watts Minimum Power Supply Requirement
