Sapphire goes toxic and ape

Diego Diaz 23 Jul, 2004 at 11:40am ET Article published in Tech

Today Saphire has released its new “Toxic” line of Radeon Cards. These cards come with Overclocking software named “Ape”. With Ape you can OC your “Toxic” card to its maximum potential right out of the box.

SAPPHIRE WENT TOXIC TODAY with the launch of its new card line, and they went APE and Lethal at the same time. The picture of the heatsink we showed you at E3 is now updated with a buyable card and more details. Luckily, it is all good news.

Let’s just start out with the card itself. It is aimed at the very top of the high performance video card market, the lunatic fringe that OCs the hell out of a card, and still can’t get enough. Throw in a great deal of time spent on making sure it looks as good as it performs, and you have the Sapphire RADEON TOXIC X800 PRO VIVO 256MB.

Source: The inquirer

Comments

23 Jul 2004 ~ 11:48am gibbonsl
23 Jul 2004 ~ 1:45pm EyesOnly
23 Jul 2004 ~ 2:17pm GHoosdum That heatsink shroud looks to be the color of toxic waste.

Other than that, the card looks freakin' amazing!
23 Jul 2004 ~ 2:26pm deicist Okay, Toxic is the name of the card, APE is a factory set OC feature and I dunno where they got 'lethal' from, but there's only 1 (one) card discussed in this article, not 3 like the headline makes out.
23 Jul 2004 ~ 2:34pm Jengo thanks for pointing that out.

lets try and keep it cool around here. it was an honest mistake. its as good as fixed
23 Jul 2004 ~ 4:29pm pseudonym Ahhh, more hairdryers.
23 Jul 2004 ~ 10:09pm KingFish Is that a one or two slot card?

KF
23 Jul 2004 ~ 10:35pm Thrax Two, obviously.
23 Jul 2004 ~ 10:37pm KingFish From the picture it is not obvious or I wouldn't be asking.

KF
23 Jul 2004 ~ 10:48pm madmat

deicist wrote:

Okay, Toxic is the name of the card, APE is a factory set OC feature and I dunno where they got 'lethal' from, but there's only 1 (one) card discussed in this article, not 3 like the headline makes out.

I think lethal comes from them implying it's gonna hurt you.
Just a thought.
24 Jul 2004 ~ 9:08am deicist Sorry for the arsey tone of my original post, I really didn't mean it to sound like that, just wanted to point out the mistake

sorry.
24 Jul 2004 ~ 9:48am Leonardo

Ahhh, more hairdryers.

Nope. Reviews are stating that the Toxic's cooling setup is quieter than the ordinary, ATI-factory coolers.
24 Jul 2004 ~ 9:53am GnomeWizardd its basically coming with a artic silencer on it
24 Jul 2004 ~ 1:57pm TheBaron the "Lethal" is the name of the arctic silencer cooling system on the card. says so at the end of that Inq Article. looks good though, I'd hit it
27 Jul 2004 ~ 3:56pm Mohawk so basically its the same as the HIS x800