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Overall: If you have the slots free and a full wallet, the
Sapphire Toxic X1900XTX 512MB is a quieter version of a blazingly fast graphics
card and is well worth the money
Running high-end graphics cards quietly at peak frame rates is a major
problem.
Sapphire has addressed this problem with its
Toxic
X1900XTX graphics card, which loses the huge heatsink and fan of the
standard X1900 XTX reference design, and gains a water block and separate water
cooling device with a smaller and quieter fan.
Impressively, it’s also factory overclocked with a 675MHz core and 801MHz
memory (1,602MHz effective) clocks as opposed to the standard 650/750MHz clock
speeds.
The card itself is still a two slot job, but you Sapphire has thoughtfully
made the water pipes long enough to use any available PCI slot.