Ever get the feeling that manufacturers find inspiration from the comments made in web communities?
Take Sapphire, for example. We were suitably impressed by the company's fanless and practically-silent Radeon HD 6670 Ultimate graphics card, but our readership? Well, less so.
Brewster0101 suggested that "a silent/ultra quiet 80mm fan [instead of the large heatsink]" would have been a better idea, while Medallish - despite describing the card as "almost perfect" - added that it needed to be single slot to be an awesome HTPC addition. Tell it how it is, folks, we wouldn't have it any other way, and it seems neither would Sapphire.
Today, the manufacturer is righting some of those perceived wrongs with the introduction of the HD 6670 Low Profile.
Aimed at the HTPC crowd, Sapphire's new variant of AMD's Radeon HD 6670 design makes use of a low-profile form factor and a slim, single-slot cooler.
Sapphire reckons this is "the first and only graphics card available with his specification," and sees the card as an ideal dual-graphics upgrade for AMD APU-based systems.
Other than the change of form factor, the card sticks to standard AMD specifications - so you're looking at 480 processor cores, a GPU clock speed of 800MHz and 1GB of GDDR5 memory ticking along at an effective 4,000MHz. DVI, HDMI and VGA outputs are all included, and Sapphire bundles both the standard- and low-profile back plates.
High-res, high-quality DX11 gaming may be a stretch for the 6670, but there's plenty of media prowess. Out the box, it'll deliver hardware-accelerated video decoding - courtesy of AMD UVD - as well as support for Blu-ray 3D over HDMI 1.4a.
We've yet to see a mention of pricing, but we think we'll go ahead and refer to this one as the 6670 Brewllish Edition from now on.
