Sapphire Radeon X800GTO2 Review

Sapphire exclusively offers a part called the GTO2 (GTO Squared). The ‘Squared’ refers to the fact that this card has one ‘quad’ of pipelines that have been disabled, and that with a bit of jiggery-pockery from a BIOS flash and an overclocking tool, it can be turned from a 12-pipeline 400MHz card into a 540MHz 16-pipelined graphics card.

The Sapphire Radeon X800GTO2 is great news then for bargain hunters. It means that £150 and a little bit of work will buy you a very fast graphics card. Of course spending £20 or so extra will net you a 6800GS or a X850 XT, but in most situations the modded Sapphire X800GTO2 will outperform them both. For those in the know this is the best, worst kept secret in the graphics market right now.

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