Final thoughts and rating
Sapphire's very best single-GPU card is the Radeon HD 6970 FleX. It packs in a trio of company-specific technologies - customised rear exhaust plate, three DVI monitor support and a second, overclocked BIOS - and throws in the recently-released Battlefield 3 for good measure.
Able to smoothly run the new Battlefield game at a full-HD resolution with all the bells and whistles tacked on, Sapphire opens the path for user-based overclocking, on top of the 930MHz shipping core, by including an 8-pin PCIe connector and voltage adjustment. This, then, is about as good as Radeon HD 6970 2GB gets.
Though a little too loud (out of the box) for our liking when under the hammer, Sapphire's Radeon HD 6970 2GB FleX remains a good, solid choice for the enthusiast who wants a well-rounded card that, in theory, is about as futureproof as they come.
The Good
Genuine value-adds from Sapphire
BF3 is a proper triple-A title
Decent overclocking potential
The Bad
A little louder than we'd like in out-of-box configuration
Suffers more than NVIDIA with 4x MSAA in BF3
HEXUS Rating
Sapphire Radeon HD 6970 2GB FleX BF3
HEXUS Awards
Sapphire Radeon HD 6970 2GB FleX BF3
HEXUS Where2Buy
TBC.
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