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no I don't think anybody would argue with me if I was to say that I was a graphics snob in fact just the background of this entire video so far should probably prove that point that's why today we're going to look at a product that I probably a year ago would have never bothered with but I think this is something that's gonna blow your mind because it's certainly made mine feel a little bit Swizzle if that's even the right it feels like somebody took a stick in my brain and stirred it up because I didn't even think technology like this was even possible now I've already taken a look at the r7 250 in the past there's nothing new to my channel in fact I think it's a great graphics card when it comes in well under $100 if you're an extreme budget builder or you want to get a gaming experience or just get into gaming PC for the first time and you don't have a lot of money to spend you can get some pretty impressive gameplay graphics and graphics settings out of the r7 250 so why are we taking a look at an R 7 250 again today well that's because we are taking a look at sapphires ultimate passive silent cooling that's right they have built a graphics card out of the r7 250 that has absolutely no fans on it this thing is 100% silent now I looked at that and I said how is that even possible with how demanding current titles are and the fact that so many graphics cards are battling heat how on earth could they put together a graphics card that still gives us maintainable frame rates without actually cooking itself to death now if you guys haven't heard of sapphire they are - AMD as EVGA is - Nvidia they only deal with AMD boards they're only an AMD partner and they pretty much specialize in anything when it comes to Radeon graphics cards now it's got the standard stuff we're not going to go over too much specs it's got one gigabyte of gddr5 it's got 0 core power a PP acceleration GC + architecture HDMI outputs all the usual stuff you'd come to expect of course I can run on the mantle API now the testing I did today was utilizing mantle on the tests I did where it could be used but I really started wondering where exactly does this graphics card fit in and who should be buying this so I've actually got a couple of recommendations of where this card fits in but I've got to say the performance legitimately shocked me now inside the box comes the usual stuff drivers connectors and they even give you an HDMI high-speed cable it's 1.8 meters long that's kind of neat and that kind of starts to give you an indication of where this card really belongs now here it is right here I actually think that this is a very attractive cooler I mean it's got tons and tons of fins it's got four heat pipes on it they look like six millimeter heat pipes I could be wrong but I believe they're six millimeter we've got DisplayPort HDMI port and a single DVID port now you can see here that the heatsink actually wraps around the top and to the back of the card slightly allowing the heat to actually dissipate up because if you've got the heatsink only sitting on the bottom and it's in the standard case oriented like this instead of maybe like that then you're going to find that he could get trapped but those heat pipes are actually driving the heat to these sinks here which is also dissipating it into the case allowing your case cooling to take care of the heat now when it comes to the actual core spec on this it is an 800 megahertz core I'm actually surprised at that because I thought to myself well they'd probably gone ahead and conservatively placed the core on this to in manageable speed where it's not going to cook itself to death I'm going to circle back to temperatures at the end of this video because I think that that's what most of us are going to be most interested in now I'm going to go ahead and just kind of set this on the side over here and I'm going to refer to my notes here when it comes to frames per second now you guys have kind of complained that I haven't done enough modern a title our triple-a titles when it comes to my testing I'm working on it guys I'm actually I mean the process are completely rebuilding my test rig I need more storage space alright guys so idle Tim so I'll go ahead and tell you that idle at right around 36 degrees Celsius now 36 degrees Celsius is actually something that it's pretty good but again temperatures are going to depend entirely upon your case flow so if you're gonna have terrible case flow you could potentially have some cooling problems with this card I just want to put that out there I am using the arc XL with all fan spots actually utilized in the case but at slow speeds so just want to put that out there all right so for valley mark we got a four ninety that's not like crazy right four ninety isn't anything like to go bragging about but here is where I started to change my methodology on the testing I did a four ninety but it maxed out at 50 degrees Celsius with no fan no fan on this thing at all and it maxed out at 50 degrees Celsius now here's the thing that's cool about that that's exactly where the msi version of the r7 250 set on temperatures with a fan so I went okay I had no intentions of overclocking this graphics card I didn't consider it overclockable because I thought well it's got no fans so if I overclock it it's just going to cook itself to death so you know what I did I went ahead and just maxed out the sliders on MSI Afterburner to see what would happen now max overclock allowable without enabling the unofficial overclocking limits where it extends the limits and I don't want to do that for this test I wanted to be fair to the card was a max of 900 megahertz so that's where we said it we said at 900 megahertz and we left the memory pretty much where it was now when it overclocked at the valley benchmark score jump from 490 up to 549 it's actually a pretty decent jump considering percentage-wise now bf4 on ultra settings on let's face it this is not an ultra ready card I just want to see how it would do gave me a pretty locked framerate at 24 fps now I went ahead and put this card where it belongs in fact I let Battlefield detect the card and put what the recommended settings were it recommended medium which is kind of cool I expected it to recommend low a recommended medium and I got a lot framerate at 60 frames per second now vsync wasn't on and again this is with mantle 14.7 but with the vsync turned off it actually capped out and just stuck at 60 frames per second sometimes going up to 65 never go and going lower than 55 and at medium graphics on Battlefield 4 it actually looked fantastic and I thought of course battlefield to fill battlefield 4 must be cooking the card and temperatures were actually sitting at well you got to wait till the end of the video tomb raider ultimate settings give me a 17 point 2 FPS on the benchmark obviously once again this is not an ultimate graphics card so I know want to put technically it is I guess it says ultimate on the box well we'll get back to that ultimate settings on Tomb Raider they were kicking the cards but set it down to normal fifty five point three frames per second average on the benchmark fantastic alright so dirt three on alternate why am i doing dirt three well I still think it's a very pretty game I still think it's relevant on entry level graphics cards like this because it's a cheap game lots of people play it and it does have some decent eye candy dirt three ultra 42 frames per second pretty good it kind of shows that the game is aged a little bit doesn't have a lot of resource requirements and on the medium settings 89 frames per second so here's what this is telling me this is telling me if you have a very strict budget and you need to spend less than $100 on a graphics card and you actually want something that is a hundred percent silent this is something you should definitely be looking at now with all of these tests while overclocked temperatures never exceeded 54 degrees Celsius with no frickin fan anywhere on the PCB that was a little unexpected I've gotta admit guys I did not expect that type of performance now where does this fit in I've already mentioned the ultra budget-minded gamer who's looking for silent but where else would silent come in handy I remember that one point 8 meter HDMI cable they gave you I think this is by far the perfect solution if you're building a home theater PC and you want to be able to upscale to 4k this thing can do 4k resolution has a display core that can handle it but I think that this is the perfect graphics card for a multimedia PC and in fact I've been wanting to build one for quite awhile now and I've got the hardware to do it and I've got the parts for it so what I'm going to do actually in the future is I'm going to build a multimedia home theater PC and this is what's going to be driving the graphics on it I think those are the two places if it's ultra cheap PC gaming people who want to break into PC to have a lot to spend and they want silence and home theater pcs you have to take a look at this graphics card if that is what you're looking for the price point on is fantastic and it can play games to boot guys that has been the Sapphire ultimate r7 250 graphics card had no idea what to expect going into this video I'm sure glad I took a look at it because it it truly surprised me very little things surprised me anymore when it comes to I'm pretty I have a pretty good idea of it going into a review of an expectation and usually being pretty much on on point today I was way off I thought this thing was going to probably get up to 70 maybe even 80 degrees Celsius but that just goes to show exactly how efficient the r7 series is especially this guy with this cooler and this many heat pipes the future of gaming is definitely looking like a nice cool efficient one when it comes to graphics cards Jase two cents guys follow on Twitter if you have any questions thanks for 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