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Sapphire's Toxic X1900 XTX - liquid cooling
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| Fri Jul 21, 2006 | 4:55P| PermaLink |
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LATELY, GRAPHICS CARD manufacturers have become less willing-or perhaps less capable-of deviating from the reference designs provided by ATI and NVIDIA. This trend is especially apparent at the high end of the market, where often little more than a sticker and a couple of MHz differentiates one manufacturer's card from another. There's not really anything wrong with reference designs; it's just disappointing to see card makers settling for the status quo rather than pushing the envelope with tweaked board designs or innovative cooling solutions.
Fortunately, there are a few pockets of originality in a landscape of cookie-cutter reference designs. One such beacon of hope is Sapphire's Toxic X1900 XTX, a hot rod rendition of ATI's Radeon X1900 XTX that boasts higher clock speeds and an integrated liquid cooler. That's right: this card comes with liquid cooling in the box, and there's no extra assembly required.
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FULL STORY @
TECHREPORT
(http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/sapphire-toxic/index.x?pg=1)
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