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The dust has all settled now from the launch of the HD 5000 series; the HD 5850 came out of the gates about 5 months back now. But even though ATI has a stranglehold on the DirectX 11 market these days, with the vast majority of the HD 5000 series released, and with NVIDIA's next-gen Fermi architecture still nowhere to be seen, that doesn't mean things have gotten boring. Keeping things fresh and ever-interesting are the board partners who have now had some time to really get to know their HD 5000 parts. Resultingly, they are trying new things out, trying some designs of their own, and tweaking things here and there. Today we'll look at one such design shake-up: the Sapphire HD 5850 Toxic. The overclocked Toxic series, along with the Atomic and Vapor-X offerings, has been a reccurring option coming from Sapphire -- one of the largest, if not the largest, of the companies selling video cards. All the Toxics have two things in common: overclocked clocks, and a non-reference design. Today's HD 5850 Toxic is no exception. Let's see what Sapphire has been up to, shall we?
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