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Review: Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 TOXIC 1,024MB examined

by Tarinder Sandhu on 18 February 2010, 05:00 3.85

Tags: Sapphire HD 5850 TOXIC, Sapphire

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Bundle and warranty







Here's where we have a gripe with Sapphire. Much is (justifiably) made about the hardware portion of the package.  The Vapor-X and TOXIC bundles are the same and rather mundane, although SimHD spruces matters up a little.

We understand that Sapphire's clearly trying to hit a price point and including a triple-A game will increase the cost to nearer HD 5870 levels, but the package also does without the DiRT2 voucher found on earlier models - most likely due to the allocation being reached.

Unlike the Radeon HD 5970, there's no Redline software to tinker with the card's voltage; that's a shame considering the thought that's gone into cooling.

The bundle is backed up by Sapphire's standard two-year warranty. Claims in the first year are handled by the supplier from whom the card was purchased from. Claims after this period are handled by a U.K.-based service centre.