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Sapphire HD6970 Battlefield 3 Flex Edition Review (Limited Edition)

Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2 is an arcade-style flight action game developed by Ubisoft Romania and published by Ubisoft. After the events of the first game, the H.A.W.X squadron is sent to Middle East, where a high level of violence is being registered, and the appearance of various insurgents leaders in various hotspots. The team also has to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Russian nuclear weapons. The player will be controlling three groups: one American (Hunter), one British (Munro) and one Russian (Sokov), each with its own pilots and supporting characters. There will also be references to other characters in the Tom Clancy universe.

We are testing in full DX11 mode with all settings to maximum.

An Nvidia favourite, but a game which AMD have optimised over the last couple of months. No problems with any of the cards on test today, but the HD6970 delivers a fantastic experience, averaging around 90 frames per second.

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24 comments

  1. THe price is pretty good, but some of the GTX580s have dropped in price recently too, £380 ish. Nice to see them working out a deal for BF3.

  2. Is battlefield 3 any good? havent played it yet.

  3. Cant see it anywhere for sale yet. is this a preorder on any store im missing?

  4. Love the vapor X cooler, got one on my GFX too 🙂

  5. If you were buying one today, would you get this or the twin fan XFX ?

  6. Battlefield is £30 for PC. This is a very good price.

  7. Nice, good temps and cooler

  8. No one is stocking it, or evenon preorder

  9. I like sapphire cards, i want their 6990 but cant get one anywhere

  10. Great. Good luck to all wo entered the comp. Hope i win!

  11. Love it! Cant wait to play bf3. They make good hardware

  12. Why buy one of these. New cards will be out in a few months

  13. Vapor x rocks. Dual bios switch is a good idea. Any ideas when we might be able to get it? Ive held off buying bf3 for this now

  14. 6970 is a great card, but i bought the 6959 and modded it to 6970 cost me 210
    Last month

  15. @Billy …and why buy those cards coming out in a few months when new cards will come out a few months after those? lol

  16. I agree you gotta jump in sometime. Seems like as good a time as any now

  17. Nice. I rexoomend 6970 for 1080p. Has extra bandwidth for more aa than 6950

  18. Really dumb question bby someone who knows nothing of graphics cards, just because its supports the 3 screen setup it will still work fine with just 1 screen ? Also the switch to change the modes is that a physical switch on the card or a something you can change on the computer on the fly?

  19. Hi Dan, Yes, the card works fine with 1 screen. I just tested Battlefield 3 with eyefinity. All other games are using one screen.

    There is a physical switch on the card for the enhanced core speed mode. Switch it while the system is off and restart. There is a picture of it, earlier in the review.

  20. Ok awesome thanks for the speedy response. Does that switch poke out the back or would i have to take the case of my computer each time i wanted to change it?

  21. I would just leave it on the higher setting all the time.

    The bios switch is on the card itself, you would need to take the door off the case to get at it.

  22. So you review an special/overclocked edition with BF3 and you do not bench it with BF3, just with these freaky triple display that only people with $5000 rigs uses… cool.

  23. Three 1080p screens in uk can cost as little as £500. And we used this sapphire review card to test battlefield 3 with those screens. Not sure how you work out 5000 dollars just for that.

    An eyefinity setup is not expensive at all actually. i5 2500k, 4gb of ram, £80 motherboard easily used as a basis for an ef rig.

  24. pretty good………………nice