Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP2, Windows Vista Hard Disk(s): Seagate 250GB 7200RPM SATA-2 7200.10 (Supplied by Seagate) Motherboard(s): GIGABYTE X48-DQ6 (Supplied by GIGABYTE) Processor(s): Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 3GHz (333MHz x 9)Ĭooling: Corsair Nautilus500 (Supplied by Corsair) with Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound (Supplied by Arctic Cooling) The front of the card has a picture of a chick with a gun and gives us the standard run down of information.įinally we move to the I/O side and find ourselves looking at two Dual Link DVI connectors and a TV-Out port.Īs we mentioned before, this particular card is overclocked instead of the stock 725MHz core, Sapphire have pushed it up to 800MHz with the GDDR3 coming clocked in at 1800MHz DDR. Like most low-end cards we've seen from Sapphire over recent times, the box is a nice little design that stands upright. I won't lie to you, I'm not all that excited about these cards but it's all part of the job so let's move forward and see exactly what we have with us today. So we've got two cards here, both of which are from Sapphire the low end HD 3450 which is supposed to replace the 2400 series of cards, and the new 3650 which is supposed to replace the 2600 series of cards. So that's what we're doing today, we're going to look after the people on the other side of the fence, who don't need big 3DMark numbers or 200FPS in Half Life 2 at 2560 x 1600. We sometimes forget that not everyone has the money or the need to use these higher end cards. We've been so concentrated on the release of new 8800 series cards and more recently the release of the 9600GT that we've somewhat forgotten about the new mid and low-end cards from AMD carrying the 34 naming scheme.
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