The retail box is a vertically oriented package carrying a predominantly blue color scheme stylized by a large macro shot of a CGI robot eye.
Our review unit of Gigabyte's Radeon HD 6850 1GB OC arrived in a retail box. All contents arrived safely to our location here in Calgary from Gigabyte's American offices two thousand kilometers away in California. Situated between a large shot of packing peanuts for protection is the Gigabyte Aivia K8100 keyboard Preston reviewed a couple of weeks ago, along with the factory customized non-reference Gigabyte Radeon HD 6850 1GB OC for our review today. Gigabyte threw everything into a large brown corrugated cardboard box and sent it along our way via FedEx International Priority. Featuring Gigabyte's Windforce 2X cooler out of the box, as well as a slight factory overclock to give it an edge in the benchmarks, is it enough to set this product aside from the other 6850s? Read on to find out! The Gigabyte GV-R685OC-1GD Radeon HD 6850 1GB OC is a perfect example. (Just to clear up the name confusion, the 6800 series replaces the 5700 series the 6900 series replaces the 5800 series.) With so many variants of 6850s to choose from, manufacturers scramble to differentiate their products from their competitors. AMD's 40nm Northern Islands family of GPUs is the company's second generation DirectX 11 cards, and the 68 - codenamed 'Barts' - promise to deliver roughly the same level of performance as the 58, which were the high performance graphics processor units of the previous generation. Today's midrange performance cards in the $200 range provide surprisingly excellent bang for your buck.
Own a big monitor? Cough up more cash, or turn down the resolution and detail. You might get a shot at maximum settings if you were playing an older game. I still remember a few years ago when a midrange video card meant playing most computer games at midrange settings. With the past now behind us, I am very proud to announce we are now back on board with the component essential to all gaming computers - and we will have many more to come, too. I am not even going to bother linking to our last article on graphics to give you an exact time gap between this review and the last. Whew, it has been a long time since we last reviewed a video card.
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