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Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 Flex Video Card Review
Author: Will West
Published: Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Overclocking
The Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 Flex is based on the idea of getting the best gaming experience without breaking the bank. So with that kind of mentality will always lead us to overclocking. Free performance is always a huge plus for gamers and enthusiasts alike. Let's see how the Radeon HD 6870 Flex is able to do.
Finding the right software to push the new Radeon HD 6870 Flex was somewhat tougher than it should have been. With lack of working software voltage tweaks made the Radeon HD 6870 Flex kind of hard to get a whole lot extra from the core.
By firing up the Catalyst Control Panel we were able to start pushing the card and were able to get a decent amount of speed from the GPU and even more on the memory side. Now it is time to see the results of our labor.
By firing up the Catalyst Control Panel we were able to start pushing the card and were able to get a decent amount of speed from the GPU and even more on the memory side. Now it is time to see the results of our labor.
In UT3 the boost in performance is noticeable and quite impressive. The major test is to show any kind of frame rate boost in AVP. The overclock was a success by giving us not one but four full frames on the lower resolution.
