{"id":15671,"date":"2010-02-22T01:08:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T01:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=15671"},"modified":"2010-02-22T01:08:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T01:08:29","slug":"sapphire-radeon-hd-5850-toxic-1gb-video-card-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/sapphire-radeon-hd-5850-toxic-1gb-video-card-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic 1GB video card review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Given its Toxic subtitle, it&#8217;s fair to expect some factory overclocks from Sapphire&#8217;s offering here, and thankfully that&#8217;s exactly what we get, with the company boosting that 725MHz reference core clock speed to 765MHz (a modest 40MHz increase) while the card&#8217;s 1GB of GDDR5 gets some real attention, with the 1000MHz memory sported by a stock card upgraded to a blistering 1125MHz on the Radeon HD 5850 Toxic.<\/p>\n<p>While Sapphire&#8217;s Radeon HD 5870 went for a rugged-looking cooling solution, the Radeon HD 5850 Toxic goes for something rather more shiny and colourful, with a dual-slot cooler that covers the entirety of the PCB&#8217;s front, while also positioning itself to exhaust any hot air reasonably well from the rear of the system chassis.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elitebastards.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1252&amp;catid=13&amp;Itemid=27\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.elitebastards.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1252&amp;catid=13&amp;Itemid=27', 'http:\/\/www.elitebastards.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1252&amp;catid=13&amp;Itemid=27']);\" >http:\/\/www.elitebastards.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1252&amp;catid=13&amp;Itemid=27<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Given its Toxic subtitle, it&#8217;s fair to expect some factory overclocks from Sapphire&#8217;s offering here, and thankfully that&#8217;s exactly what we get, with the company boosting that 725MHz reference core clock speed to 765MHz&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2535],"tags":[72,73,2290,238,470,3153,478],"class_list":["post-15671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-news","tag-amd","tag-ati","tag-hd-5850","tag-radeon","tag-sapphire","tag-toxic","tag-video-card"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}