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Monday, April 9, 2012

I've been buying Sapphire video cards for many years. they are excellent cards. very good quality. fan is silent. installed no problems. driver setup was a snap in Win7 64 bit. drives a 24" Asus monitor with excellent results. if you are going to buy a video card buy sapphire. do your research on specs and determine what type of card best suits your needs. i didn't buy this for a gaming rig. the price was right for what I needed it for. takes up two slots but what card doesn't these days.
I tend not to leave reviews, but after installing this I had to to make sure others would jump on it. The 5670 is frequently a recommended buy and it does not disapoint. Sapphire did a great job with their version.Pros:Value-price/performanceDownloadable software overclock, was able to boost 30% and still be stableQuiet! even at 100% fan speed the Idling cpu fan was louderAudio bit-streaming, Dolby TrueHD and DTSHD Master Audio etc...Crossfire ability. Cant wait to see what 100$ for 2 of these beats!Cons:Sapphire's promise of free software for registering the card is non-existent.Overall I would recommend this to any budget conscience gamer or HTPC builder. I managed to get this for $50 after…

Fan was extremely loud. But it gets worse. Granted, the settings on the newest games were able to look and play wonderfully well, the card only lasted 2 days before dying. All of the sudden, nothing. Blank screen. I did the normal investigative items, and I have a bad card. We call this "infant mortality" in the computer industry. I have been an Nvidia guy my whole life, but I ventured off the path. I do not like the Catalyst controls and will be returning the card, and getting my money back. The card has some good numbers in the online benchmarks I have seen, but Xfx needs to do something with this fan. It was running 50% on the internet. I really would have kept the card and was…
I was going to purchase a GTX 560 Ti then I saw this XFX HD 6870 with 2 Gig memories. The GTX 560 Ti is a faster card comparing to HD 6870 1 Gig memory but not by much. But comparing to XFX HD 6870 2 Gig version they should be about the same if is not more. This card will be somewhat future prove due to 2 gig of memories. The XFX HD 6870 2 gig cost about $40 to $50 less than the GTX 560 Ti 1 gig. Some people complained the fan is little loud, but it's a high performance card! What do you expect?! It only gets loud when the 3D game is launched. The GTX 560 Ti has mini HDMI which I don't like and HD 6870 has standard HDMI 1.4a. If your OS is XP (32bit), you must download the driver from the AMD's…

My main motivation for purchasing this card was to use it in my Windows 7 Media Center PC. This card supports audio-over-HDMI, including support for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio. Watching Blu-rays on my HTPC has never been better!
This graphics card is just what I needed. I was looking for a great graphics card that would play games with the high graphic settings. I am able to run The Witcher 2 (which looks amazing) with most setting on high and not get any lag. The price for this card is a really good deal compared to other cards out there. Also, amazon.com was great with getting the product shipped in one day.