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Very nice looking coolers! :shocked:
HD 4650?
http://i31.tinypic.com/otdhls.jpg
HD 4850?
http://i30.tinypic.com/2q0r1af.jpg
http://i31.tinypic.com/2q9f7ux.jpg
HD 4870?
http://i28.tinypic.com/2dvvrs.jpg
http://i31.tinypic.com/w0hwzs.jpg
HD 4870X2 ?
http://i27.tinypic.com/1gnfc6.jpg
http://i26.tinypic.com/2mczqzo.jpg
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I like the low end coolers^^ They look so cute!
dang it. they slightly changed the PCB, one RAM-Chip isn't angled any more. some fullcover-waterblocks should fit though.
The x2 cooler looks MASSIVE! :eek:
Yeah and look, they connected heatpipes through both heatsinks. To spread the heat :up: Might have been a NOT so bad idea :DQuote:
Originally Posted by p2501
also, both sides are now copper when only one was on the 3870x2Quote:
Originally Posted by Yori1989
that 4650 looks better than the 4850, and i hpe that the all copper x2 stays
so the mcm rumor finally dies for the 4870X2.
4870X2 is the same as 3870X2, on board corssfire... micro stuttering gtfo... :p:
mcm is not die. We don't know how much dies use the RV770 ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hornet331
yeah right... now your telling me they are using 4 cores on the X2... you wish. :D
the plastic parts on ati's coolers always look so awfully cheap... but the actual cooling design looks really neat :up:
Even IF a single rv770 is an mcm, you still have to connect to of em on the x2 version, and this is what Hornet331 was referring to. But lets wait and see, maybe they fixed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by madcho
tbh, the 3 series coolers looked better.
Those black stickers are horrible
Why do you keep hold on so thight to that stupid misinformation? You think it will be true if you keep saying it enough?Quote:
Originally Posted by madcho
Erm... did you look at the pictures above? ...Quote:
Originally Posted by madcho
On topic:
looks almost exactly the same as HD3xx0 series, but now in red-black
colour combo... now we're getting somewhere. Who cares if it doesn't
perform better when it looks better? :rofl:
Seriously though, why not implement the vapour chamber on these, too?
Why push warm air to a dead end with the 4850 instead of expelling it
to the side? etc.
lol its carbon fiber! Its to lower the overall weight dont you know. :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jowy Atreides
Hopefully powercolour and club 3d will have their all copper coolers on the 4800's. I wont be buying any of these fugly coolers, I want the big copper ones.
thinking 4870X2 would be MCM is kinda being hopefulQuote:
Originally Posted by Hornet331
but i thougt they would utilize a new system, for connecting the 2 chips, that the 2 GPU's could use their own ram, ar at least could communicate faster and better with eachother
I heard they called it 4690 at pczilla, and not 4650.
Doesn't look like anything really changed here.. hopefully this means the TDP won't be crazy versus RV670.
they look very nice however the 4870X2's cooler look identical to the prototype 3870X2's cooler :S
Ehh cooler design dont matter if your on water
Who uses stock coolers anyway?
I do until I strap dry ice pots to them :DQuote:
Originally Posted by [cTx] Nooc
480sp in a single slot cooler is quite an achievement
I just hope they are like the old 2900XT cooler so you can keep the RAM heat spreader and fit GPU blocks, some shroudless, HPCless top shots would be nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by [cTx] Nooc
I'll be gettin myself one of em EK blocks for it so I dont care how the cooler looks, I just want to see if ATI has made their cards any more efficient per-shader. I hope those benchmarks we saw a while back comparing an HD4870 to a 9800GX2 are true! I hope VR-zones estimates are wrong! We'll just have to wait and see! I hate having to say that! more exclamation points!
2 years after the 8800GTX and GTS, we finally see some improvement. Glad its here, wish it hadn't taken so long.
still the same god awful performance though
This 4870X2 cooler its the same design that the 2900XT old prototype.
Talking about the cards or the heatsinks?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spawne32
the heatsinks :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by Swatrecon_
Looks like aftermarket cooling is the way to go for this next generation anyways, at least for the GT200 certainly. Good to see the all-copper move though finally
Aftermarket cooling has been the way to go for us XS members since the very beginning :p:
If it can be modified it will be modified!Quote:
Originally Posted by STaRGaZeR
slight ot, but given that we know power draw & cooler design, which cards do you guys think will benefit the most from voltmods in the next couple months?
gtx280/260 or hd4870/4850/x2? metro, largon, jason, dinos, anybody?
TY!!!
I'd almost wager in terms of relative %'s, the 4850's probably if the rumor was true that they could reach 990 MHz clock on stock air, but are being limited by ATI in order to not compete with the 4870's (hence AIB's cant release overclocked versions for the initial round).
However, they seem like they will be memory limited this time around. 4870's might be a good go if they start at 850 MHz clock and can hit 1+ GHz air stock.
Only reason I say relative %'s is cause the GTX280 already has a TDP of 236W... how much more headroom is available with that much heat and power usage will remain to be seen..
yah looks like 50% oc on stock 4850 core, 280 might have as much core headroom as an 8800ultra had.
I would have to say the 4800series unless you have exotic cooling, highend water or some form of sub ambient cooling.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaredpace
It still is going to be fun watching these guys take loads of LN2 to a G200.
if the 4870 is 157 watt, but it has 2- 6 pin plugs on pcie 2.0 how much can it draw max
how high will it oc on air & water
Well IIRC PCIe x16 1.0/1.1 allows for 75W max from the slot and 75W per 6-pin so 2 x 6-pin + slot = 225W total draw. Hence the GTX280 needs 1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin cause 75 + 75 +150 = 300, as the GTX280 is rated at 236W.Quote:
Originally Posted by bill_d
OC headroom? Nobody knows...
That's a lot of money, in copper!
as a person with good air flow in my case, i hate those god damn plastic sheaths, and really prefer alot of the aftermarket coolers, but that blower design is ubiquitous now. kinda surprising since its rather acrid reception with the release of the fx5800
I sure hope that copper is renewable because of how much of it is used in PCs now :p
One more thing I hate about these stock coolers is that they dont have seperate heatsinks for the memory. 3800s had a copper plate on the memory, here they are using crappy thermal pads on the base of the heatsink again. Thank god for Zerotherm. I found their website and they have some really good coolers, but I cant find them in retail anywhere yet.
My 3850 with a side case fan above it is kept at 48-50 degrees, the second one never goes above 58 degrees, both at 776 Mhz. Hoping for more zerotherm goodness on the 4800's :)