Sapphire HD 6850 PCIE Video Card (100315L)

Product Features

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

Technical Details

• Brand Name: Sapphire Technology
• Model: 100315L
• Item Package Quantity: 1
• Graphics Coprocessor: AMD
• Warranty: 2-year warranty

Product Description

Get Radeon in Your System - Immerse yourself with AMD Eyefinity technology and expand your games across multiple displays. Experience ultra-realistic visuals and explosive HD gaming performance in true -EyeDefinition with AMD’s second generation graphics featuring full Microsoft DirectX 11 support. Enable incredible video quality and enhanced application performance with AMD EyeSpeed visual acceleration technology. Get unrivalled graphics. Get Radeon in your system

Customer Reviews

By Geek4Life

Not much to say that people don't already know, about how it's quiet (can't hear it over my case fans at idle, and can barely hear it over my case fans at load), overclocks well (950+/1200+ for my card), is cool (37C idle, 67C load, and that's with overclocking!), and powerful (roughly equal to a GTX460-1GB). I use 3-monitor Eyefinity all the time for productivity, and it's a huge bonus to not have to use multiple cards to achieve that.

One thing that people might not know though is that this card is basically equal to the ASUS DirectCu. They are almost the same in terms of noise and GPU core temperatures, despite the direct-Cu thing which is apparently overblown. Look at reviewers who measure these things, and the ASUS and Sapphire cards will come up within 2 degrees C of each other and 2 decibels as well.

Why is this?

Well, if you look at online reviews where they remove the shrouds covering the cards, you can see that the heat sink and fan are basically the same between them. They both have the same size copper heat pipes and big aluminum heatsinks.

Yes, the ASUS one has the copper heat pipes physically touching the GPU core (hence the name DirectCu, since "Cu" stands for "copper"), but that doesn't lower the temperature by that much more compared to the Sapphire, which uses a traditional (aluminum? nickel?) plate that touches the GPU and then transfers the heat to the copper heatpipes.

The only other difference is that ASUS's shroud is smaller, whereas Sapphire's shroud is big and helps direct the flow of air OUTSIDE of the case rather than swirl the hot air back into your case.

That last reason is why I chose the Sapphire card: it's basically the same as the ASUS card except that it directs the hot air out of the case better. And it was $7 cheaper than the ASUS at the time I bought it, which was a nice bonus.

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