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Powercolor HD6970 PCS+ Review – silent and deadly

Lost Planet 2 is a third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom. The game is the sequel to Lost Planet: Extreme Condition which is also made by Capcom, taking place ten years after the events of the first game, on the same fictional planet. The story takes place back on E.D.N. III 10 years after the events of the first game. The snow has melted to reveal jungles and more tropical areas that have taken the place of more frozen regions. The plot begins with Mercenaries fighting against Jungle Pirates.

After destroying a mine, the Mercenaries continue on to evacuate the area, in which a Category-G Akrid appears and attacks them. After being rescued, they find out their evacuation point (Where the Category-G appeared) was a set-up and no pick up team awaited them. Lost Planet 2 runs on the MT-Framework 2.0, an updated version of the engine used in several Capcom-developed games.

We are testing in DX11 mode with all settings on the highest. Direct X 11 features are on high.

Lost Planet 2 isn’t a game we really enjoy playing, but the engine is a great DX11 showcase. The nVidia hardware is clearly outperforming the AMD products, but we hope to see driver improvements over the coming months. The HD6970 PCS+ delivers a great end result, faster than the reference board by 3 frames per second.

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  1. Some very nice hardware this week Zardon. thanks man.

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  2. Great pictures of the board, great looking card that, very hefty

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  3. I always like their PCS+ cards, but I never know what their UK warranty is like, so I buy sapphire everytime.

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  4. That is fucking killer looking ! those heatpipes are wicked. Are yoyotech going to stock it?

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  5. Dual fans always works for me, better coverage and slower speeds. makes sense to everyone.

    Apart from AMD.

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  6. As much as I love Sapphire and XFX, I think PC get ignored a lot and its not really fair, some of their designs are just as radical as sapphire. I think this card is brilliant, those noise levels are class leading

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  7. The cooler is awesome, really works well. I think their balance might be a bit in favour of noise though, but I suppose you could set up a manual profile for a little more noise for slightly lower temps

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  8. Its all good. apart from the free game. seriously, its over a year old now, can none of these manufacturers clear stock? how about Dead space 2 or something people really want?

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  9. WHats the price? dont see it anywhere 🙁

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  10. I dont think its out yet man. probably £20-30 more, as usual. worth it. I might sell my 6850 cf setup and get one of these, to lower the noise levels, as my system is quite bad atm

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  11. Seems its quite near the core limit. wonder why they went with such a relaxed memory timing, clearly that hynix is way capable of more. that OC was very good indeed.

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  12. Hmmm, looking at the cooler taken out from the video card. I am wondering what is cooling the memory chips and other components?

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  13. @rickshaw – the dual fans are. Clearly indicated by the huge oc potential on the memory.

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  14. Nice~~~ Powercolor has done it again, cant wait to get one of those

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  15. Wow, just wow, ultra heavy wow! After my comment on the PCS+ 6870, this was exactly what I was expecting, and that’s why I asked you to ask them for a sample to review.

    I’m going to buy it right now. Enough said!

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