Sapphire HD7870 Overclock Edition Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell April 2, 2012 Featured Tech News, Graphics

Far Cry 2 (commonly abbreviated as “FC2 or “fc2″) is an open-ended first-person shooter developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It was released on October 21, 2008 in North America and on October 23, 2008 in Europe and Australia. It was made available on Steam on October 22, 2008. Crytek, the developers of the original game, were not involved in the development of Far Cry 2.

Ubisoft has marketed Far Cry 2 as the true sequel to Far Cry, though the sequel has very few noticeable similarities to the original game. Instead, it features completely new characters and setting, as well as a new style of gameplay that allows the player greater freedom to explore different African landscapes such as deserts, jungles, and savannas. The game takes place in a modern-day East African nation in a state of anarchy and civil war. The player takes control of a mercenary on a lengthy journey to locate and assassinate “The Jackal,” a notorious arms dealer.

Far Cry 2 is still a popular game and the open world environment can be taxing on even the latest hardware available today.

Settings: 1920×1200, D3D10, Disable Artificial Intelligence(No), Full Screen, Anti-Aliasing(8x), VSync(No), Overall Quality(Ultra High), Vegetation(Very High), Shading(Ultra High), Terrain(Ultra High), Geometry(Ultra High), Post FX(High), Texture(Ultra High), Shadow(Ultra High), Ambient(High), Hdr(Yes), Bloom(Yes), Fire(Very High), Physics(Very High), RealTrees(Very High).

The Sapphire HD7870 Overclock Edition averaged around 87 frames per second, identical performance to the AMD HD7770 CrossfireX system.

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10 comments

Davis
April 2, 2012 at 8:57 am

Another good card from the Sapphire team 🙂
Brian McFadden
April 2, 2012 at 11:06 am

Great cards. My friend bought one and its really quiet. the coolers are great this year.
Terry Oreilly
April 2, 2012 at 2:27 pm

Bought the 7970 last week 🙂
Justin
April 2, 2012 at 2:28 pm

Quality cards, but its a tough decision id have to base on price right now. as they all overclock much the same.
Brian
April 2, 2012 at 2:28 pm

Its XFX or Sapphire usually, but that gigabyte card is a solid buy,

Only one problem. YOU CANT FIND IT ANYWHERE !!!”
Joseph
April 3, 2012 at 8:02 am

nice specs. good performance sapphire coolers seem a bit better than XFX coolers in regards to tempeatures.