Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 FleX

Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 FleX Review

We took a look at Sapphire's Radeon HD 6870 Vapor-X a couple of weeks ago; a reference-clocked model that aims to deliver far improved cooling and noise-levels and also one that proves a breeze to overclock. Overall, we were quite impressed with Sapphire's offering, even going as far as to award it with one of our Editor's Choice awards. Can the company's "FleX" manage the same? Similar to the Vapor-X, the FleX also comes replete with a custom cooler and in effect aims to deliver better acoustics and temperatures than a reference card can manage, but in addition, it's also designed for those who want to power more than one display, taking full advantage of what AMD's Eyefinity technology has to offer. Sapphire markets the FleX as being built for Eyefinity for a couple of reasons. First, the company includes a couple of adapters in the box that will help make setting up a 3x1 configuration easier. Because the HD 6870 supports just 2 native DVI ports, Sapphire makes it easy to add a third by including an HDMI to DVI passive adapter. "But wait..." you may ask, what about the requirement for a single DisplayPort connection to power any of the available Eyefinity setups?