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Sapphire R7 265 Dual-X 2GB Video Card Review & Benchmarks

2014-06-08
hey what's going on everybody glad to see you guys all back here once again on tech of tomorrow we've got something pretty cool for you AMD fans out there now everybody who doesn't have a lot of money is always looking for a killer budget card now when I say budget card for gaming I'm thinking about a card that's under $200 range cuz usually cards that are under 100 bucks aren't geared towards gaming incomes the Sapphire Radeon r7 265 a card price between $119 on $159 119 being the used price on an $59 being the top you know you know new price that we could find on Amazon so this is a pretty well priced car it actually has a lot of kick for the buck as well this card has some nice features I think you folks are gonna really like it and for AMD fans you guys are really gonna want to pay attention to this now you guys all know back behind me I have the green horror usually in the you guys videos you guys ask a lot of questions about that well we have a really cool guy from design for Paragon who has kicked us down these awesome cables because we're gonna be changing everything out in there we're gonna make me a custom window we're gonna be gutting it out painting everything making it match up and well we got kicked some awesome cables now hopefully these things will fall around but all these cables match the build now each one of these was handmade I know you guys might want to see each and every one of them but they're all each actually individually marked taped up what they are individually and he measured every single one of these to match the parts that we gave him for the system which is going to be really cool so we've got stuff for two video cards the power everything often this really cool guy and I just wanted to give him special thanks before we jumped into the video so with that said though let's dig a little bit deeper and let's see what the r7 265 brings the table and why you are going to want to check this thing out if you want a card on a budget that games as we first take a look at the card we can see that it features a black and silver color scheme and right on top we can see two fans that clearly say dual X this is totally sapphires type of technology they have the proprietary rights for dual like stuff hence the named as we go and we look along the side of the car we can see a single heat pipe radiating out from underneath there as well as a few components and then down below that we can see the PCIe now as far as the size of the card the card size in it 228 by 109 by 35 millimeters we'll also have this translator 2 inches for those folks who use that measure requirement the card features a 900 megahertz core clock with a boost clock of the 925 megahertz the card is also made on the 28 nanometer chip and features 2024 stream processors it features 2 gigabytes of gddr5 memory and a 256-bit memory interface with a 50 600 megahertz effective memory bandwidth the card also is based on a 2 slot design and requires a single 6 pin power connector to power the card as we spend the card around we take a look at basically the rear end of the card we can see in the right hand side is that single 6 pin power connector I spoke of a second ago and to the left of that we can see where the power is being provided for the two fans on top via that fan connector right there as we spin around to the side of the card we can clearly see the sapphire logo a few more of the components in there as well as you guys can see all of the heat pins and everything and then once again we see the heat pipe reading out again off the side as we flip the card around to the backside we can see they use an entirely black PCB and there is a single crossfire connector to do a crossfire connection as far as there are out goes we see a single dvi-i and a single DVID connection as well as a single HDMI and single DisplayPort connection for those users looking to use multi monitor technology via I affinity 2.0 this card supports up to 3 monitors and if you use this technology you can get resolutions up to 4k if using just the DVI ports alone you get a maximum resolution of 2560 by 1600 at 60 Hertz now that we've seen the specs we know what the cards about let's jump in now to the benchmark song and let's see how this card actually all right folks so there you guys have it the AMD radeon sapphire version of the r7 265 in all its glory now this thing not only has a lot of power it doesn't run very hot either under idle it was running it 34 Celsius and under full load 59 Celsius so this thing runs pretty cool AMD fans out there gonna be particularly interesting this card especially if you're looking to build a system that's not gonna break the bank and still give you guys a lot of power like I said previously in the beginning of the video this car can come to market at as low as one hundred and nineteen dollars used I've seen online and up to one hundred and fifty nine dollars we'll have all the links and everything down below like button which hope you guys like this video you guys will hit we'll have all the information about this cards if you guys are looking to buy one or just any more information about it we'll have all that down there below also a lot of you guys know we've been trying to get a hold of AMD for a long time to try to get a support and it's been kind of a treacherous road because we just really can't get too much responses so I want to ask a favor of you guys fans you guys always want to see stuff on our channel about AMD so if you guys want to help us out you guys can contact Roy Taylor and AMD comm send that guy a message all you have to put in the hashtag is pretty much as hey give tech a tomorrow some support so this guy knows you the fans want to see the stuff here if AMD sees that you the fans want to see more of that stuff here then obviously they're going to give us better support as it is right now we can't even really get driver support that's right it's that bad we've emailed them hundreds of times we've contacted them by phone no response now I don't know really what's going on there I don't want to kick aim to your saying anything bad but something Funky's happening somewhere so you as the fans can help us out by contacting AMD and reaching out and saying hey support tech of tomorrow so I'm Elric thanks for watching I hope you guys like this card and I hope you guys like the video we'll see you guys back here on tech of tomorrow for more tech
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