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Sapphire revives the Toxic series

by on19 February 2008

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Updated: With HD 3870 Toxic

 

Sapphire has decided to revive its famous Toxic series, as the last card in this series was X1950 XTX and was water-cooled. This time Sapphire's HD 3870 Toxic will feature Vapour Chamber cooling previously seen on the Atomic series card. According to the price-search engine Geizhals.at this card will work at 775MHz for the core and 1125MHz for 512MB of GDDR4 memory.

The cooler is basically the same, the only difference between Sapphire's Toxic and Atomic HD 3870 cooler is that Atomic's cooler has temperature monitoring and speed regulation. As you can see from the picture below Toxic's cooler uses a two-pin connector for the fan while Atomic has a four-pin connector. As mentioned, the Toxic card works at 775MHz for the core and 1125MHz for 512MB of GDDR4 memory. These clocks are way below the highly overclocked Atomic version, which works at 825MHz for the core and 1200MHz for the same 512MB of GDDR4 memory.

Other differences are mostly price cut based, as Toxic uses Sapphire's custom PCB which has a different layout and different VRM. This also brings a significant price cut of €50, since the lowest price for the Atomic version is €258.90, while the Toxic's lowest price is currently €201.90; but the card is still not available.

You can find the Toxic card here and the Atomic version can be found here.

Update:

According to the retailers this card will not be clocked at reference 775MHz for the core and 1125MHz for 512MB of GDDR4 memory. The Vapour Chamber cooler had enough power for Sapphire to factory overclock this card to 800MHz for the core and 1152MHz for the memory. These are still lower than the clocks on the Atomic edition, but they sound much better than the previously reported clocks.

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Last modified on 20 February 2008
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