Sapphire's New Generation: Sapphire Hybrid RX800XL /RX800, Sapphire Toxic RX700PRO/RX800PRO AGP
Sapphire Radeon X800 PRO Toxic Video Card
The package bundle is quite rich:
- Sapphire Toxic X800 PRO video card;
- DVI/15-pin D-Sub and HDTV adapters;
- A VIVO splitter, and a splitter for external power;
- User's manual;
- Driver & utilities CDs + Redline proprietary utility;
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time;
- Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow;
- PowerDVD5;
- PowerDirector VE.
The cooling system is of the same design which we saw on the above reviewed X700 PRO Toxic. A turbine-type fan, a plastic housing, a copper plate with heat-spreading fins on the GPU. On the bottom part of the radiator, there is an external radiator. The cooling system takes up two PCI slots and covers the whole front side of the board,
on the reverse side there is an aluminum fastening plate which cools four video memory chips at the same time. This plate is also a load-bearing element that prevents the board from bending considering the substantial mass of the cooling system.
The card is equipped with 256 MB of GDDR3 memory, a 256-bit data transmission bus, eight Samsung memory circuits made in the BGA form factor, of 1.6 ns access time. This is equivalent to 625 MHz (1250 MHz DDR) of operating frequency. Originally, the memory runs at 450 MHz (900 MHz DDR) operating frequency.
Note that on the Toxic version there is memory which is faster than that normally installed on these cards, which is another proof that the card can be easily turned into a X800XT.
But first let's look at the GPU of 475 MHz, 12 pixel pipelines and 6 vertex units. As you see, the path between the contacts which normally happens to be broken on X800 PRO in our case is absolutely intact. Remember that to do a hardware remake of Õ800 PRO into Õ800ÕÒ this path is short-circuited with conductive lacquer. With Õ800 PRO Toxic, such operation is not needed - it suffices to reflash with the BIOS from Õ800ÕÒ.
That the card is in fact a X800XT can be established by the presence of VIVO implemented on the ATI Rage Theater chip. The board is also equipped with a connector for additional power supply.
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