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Sapphire Announces New HD 6970 Graphics Card with Dual-BIOS and Dual-Fan Cooling

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Jaskanwar Singh
Jaskanwar Singh Original post #1
Nov 1, 2011 at 9:44 PM
Sapphire Announces New HD 6970 Graphics Card with Dual-BIOS and Dual-Fan Cooling | techPowerUp

With the Dual BIOs set to the standard position, the Dual fans keep this model quiet and up to 25% cooler than the standard model even under load conditions. With the BIOS switched to the performance setting, the core voltage of the GPU is raised to 1.2V, the fan speed is set to a high performance profile and the powertune adjustment for overclocking is raised to 50% allowing the user to maximise performance of the card by increasing clock speeds either with AMD Overdrive or with SAPPHIRE TriXX up to a ceiling of 1500MHz core, 2000MHz memory.

*www.techpowerup.com/img/11-11-01/7b.jpg
*www.techpowerup.com/img/11-11-01/7a.jpg

6970 finally gets sapphire dual fan treatment.:grin:
R
Nov 2, 2011 at 12:02 AM
Nice. But the blue PCB really sucks, why couldn't they have black?
masterkd
Nov 2, 2011 at 1:02 AM
It looks cool from the top..wanna go through some reviews as soon as available!!
Jaskanwar Singh
Nov 2, 2011 at 7:49 AM
rajnusker i think sapphires favourite colour is blue :-D
topgear
topgear #5
Nov 3, 2011 at 5:17 AM
@ Jas - thanks for the news ;-)

waiting to see how fare it can perform, OC and keep cool compared to HD6970 Lightning and HD6970 DCII - BTW, I liked the look of this ;-)
Jaskanwar Singh
Nov 29, 2011 at 10:29 AM
Sapphire HD 6970 2GB Dual Fan Video Card Overclocked Review :: TweakTown USA Edition

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