Items tagged with Sapphire
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Dave Altavilla - Sat, Oct 28, 2006
The BoxGods (That's right mortal! Bow and worship the machine!) have a good hard apocalyptic look at Sapphire's Radeon X1650 Pro. The Gods have spoken and offer... "Building your PC on a budget is a lot more fun when that...
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Aug 17, 2006
Good afternoon folks. Just in case you're the type who likes to jump straight down to the news, we wanted to drop in to let you all know that we've just posted a new article (link and summary at the top of the page), where we evaluate the features and performance of Sapphire's...
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Matt Beauvais - Thu, Aug 17, 2006
Selecting the right video card when you're on a budget can be difficult. The major deciding factor for many gamers out there is price. As mouthwatering as it is to think about getting a top-notch SLI or CrossFire setup, it's a luxury that most simply cannot afford. Fear not though, as both Nvidia and ATI have some quality entry-level...
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Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Aug 14, 2006
Brent from [H] has taken a look at one of the few factory-overclocked Radeon X1900 XTX cards currently available, the liquid cooled Sappire Toxic Radeon X1900 XTX. We took a look at this card back in April when Sapphire was still calling it the "Blizzard". We ended up being impressed by the card and gave it an Editor's...
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Jul 27, 2006
Hello Everyone. Just in case you're the type who likes to jump right down to the news, we wanted to let you all know that we've just posted a new review of Sapphire's Radeon X1900 GT. This card sports a trimmed-down version of ATI's R580 GPU and 256MB of high speed GDDR3 RAM. It's also got a few other niceties thrown...
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Robert Maloney - Thu, Jul 27, 2006
It can be tough for a company to decide how and where to market a video card in today's demanding retail environment. Price something too high and only a brave few might purchase the card; price it too low and it could be dismissed as a low-end or budget card by some consumers, regardless of its value proposition. These issues can...
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Michael Lin - Thu, Jul 20, 2006
Geoff Gasior over at the Tech Report took a look at Sapphire's water cooled Toxic X1900 XTX. This all-in-one solution is actually made up of two parts; the video card and waterblock, and the watercooling assembly. They stripped away the sticker covering Sapphire's watercooling assembly to reveal it's guts....
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Serge Agroskin - Thu, Jun 22, 2006
The time has come... The tournament that HotHardware and the good folks at Sapphire put together for our HH members will run this Friday, June 23rd at 10:00PM Eastern time. The prizes up for grabs to the winning team are a Sapphire Toxic Radeon X1900XTX, X1800XT, X1600 Pro, and an X1300. As much as we'd like to give...
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Apr 13, 2006
Hello Everyone, We've teamed up with the good folks at Sapphire again for another exciting contest. Things are going to be somewhat different -- and a bit more fun -- this time around though! Here's what we're going to be giving away to the lucky winners. Yes, that's winners...
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Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Apr 10, 2006
**Update: Sapphire re-branded this product the Toxic Radon X1900 XTX after our review was published. Sapphire has been one of ATI's premier board partners for quite some time now. Their products tend to be very similar to those available directly from ATI themselves, but Sapphire does take additional steps to differentiate their offerings...
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Marco Chiappetta - Sat, Mar 18, 2006
Good evening all. Yes, it's very late, but I just got back in from some St. Patrick's Day festivities, and found an interesting package waiting in the NY lab. There was something in the box that I know many of you would like to see... What you're looking at here...
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Dave Altavilla - Wed, Mar 01, 2006
Hello Everyone! DRUM-ROLL BOYS AND GIRLS! Say congratulations to: John "xtremeskier97" Mizzell !!! and Alan "Der Meister" Campbell !!! They are our Sapphire Radeon X800GTO2 Special Edition Give-Away Winners! Enjoy boys! Cards on the way, modded out of the box and ready to rock! And a big thanks to Sapphire for sponsoring...
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Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Feb 21, 2006
Lost Circuits has just posted a review of Sapphire's flagship Radeon X1900 XTX video card. In typical LostCircuits fashion, Mike goes into great detail on the architecture and explains may of the X1900 GPUs key features. This is a good read. "Sapphire's repertoire of ATI-based graphics cards...
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Feb 16, 2006
Hello everyone! We'd like to remind you all about a contest we're running, open to all HotHardware forum members in Canada, North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Asia only. In conjunction with Sapphire, we'll be giving away two Radeon X800GTO2 Special Edition cards, to two lucky...
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Marco Chiappetta - Fri, Feb 10, 2006
Hello everyone! We'd like to remind you all about a contest we're running, open to all HotHardware forum members in Canada, North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Asia only. In conjunction with Sapphire, we'll be giving away two Radeon X800GTO2 Special Edition cards, to two lucky...
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Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Jan 30, 2006
Hello everyone! We'd like to remind you all about a contest we're running, open to all HotHardware forum members in Canada, North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Asia only. In conjunction with Sapphire, we'll be giving away two Radeon X800GTO2 Special Edition cards, to two lucky winners.
If you're not familiar with this card,
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Jeff Bouton - Mon, Jan 30, 2006
Every once in a while a product comes along that really garners the attention of the enthusiast crowd. There can be a number of factors for this, including overclocking performance, easy modding potential or just an overall great value for the money. One such piece of hardware that encompasses a lot of these qualities is the Sapphire...
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Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Jan 25, 2006
Hello everyone! We'd like to remind you all about a contest we're running, open to all HotHardware forum members in Canada, North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Asia only. In conjunction with Sapphire, we'll be giving away two Radeon X800GTO2 Special Edition cards, to two lucky winners. If you're not familiar with this...
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Matt Beauvais - Tue, Jan 24, 2006
SAPPHIRE SCORCHES IN WITH NEW X1900 SERIES Delivering the highest levels of graphics performance ever achieved in the PC industry, Sapphire Technology has just introduced its latest new series of graphics accelerators with the most sophisticated and powerful graphics processing solutions yet...
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Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Jan 18, 2006
The influx of press releases continues today with an interesting announcement from Sapphire. It looks like they'll be releasing an AGP Radeon X1600 Pro. Take a look... SAPPHIRE SUPPORTS AGP USERS WITH X1600Pro Upgrade market now enjoys latest graphics architecture Supporting the upgrade and retrofit markets using the industry standard...
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Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Jan 18, 2006
Hello everyone! We'd like to announce a new contest, open to all HotHardware forum members in Canada, North America, South America, Europe, and Asia only. In conjunction with Sapphire, we'll be giving away two Radeon X800GTO2 Special Edition cards, to two lucky winners.
If you're not familiar with this card, stay tuned for a full review.
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Matt Beauvais - Thu, Oct 27, 2005
Hey folks, the news is moving a bit slow, but it's still moving. AMD Zone has updated their Quake 4 benchmarks to include some numbers using two Radeon X850XT PE cards(Crossfire). On a more depressing note, Baseball season is now over, ended by a 4 game sweep of the Houston Astros by the...
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