Tuesday, October 26th 2010
ColorFire Designs Custom Radeon HD 6850 with Zalman VF-3000 GPU Cooler
Chinese graphics card manufacturer ColorFire designed a new non-reference design AMD Radeon HD 6850 graphics card that that uses a stronger VRM and a Zalman VF-3000 GPU cooler. The PCB sets the red color-scheme, and the cooler keeps up with it, using a hot rod looking shroud. The card uses a 7+1 phase VRM that draws power from two 6-pin power connectors, facilitating high clock speeds. The PCB also holds two CFBI fingers, indicating the card to support 3-way and 4-way CrossFireX. Low-latency (0.5 ns) GDDR5 memory chips by Hynix are used.
The VF-3000 has some hefty credentials, it can handle very high thermal loads. The cooler makes use of a dense aluminum fin array that is ventilated by two 90 mm fans. The exact clock speeds are not known. Display connectivity includes one each of DVI, D-Sub, HDMI 1.4, and DisplayPort 1.2. Like every other HD 6850, this one packs 960 stream processors, and supports the latest graphics APIs such as DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.x. It's not known if ColorFire will market this card outside China.
Source:
PCOnline.com.cn
The VF-3000 has some hefty credentials, it can handle very high thermal loads. The cooler makes use of a dense aluminum fin array that is ventilated by two 90 mm fans. The exact clock speeds are not known. Display connectivity includes one each of DVI, D-Sub, HDMI 1.4, and DisplayPort 1.2. Like every other HD 6850, this one packs 960 stream processors, and supports the latest graphics APIs such as DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.x. It's not known if ColorFire will market this card outside China.
25 Comments on ColorFire Designs Custom Radeon HD 6850 with Zalman VF-3000 GPU Cooler
I can't wait to see what other cutom models will be coming out but i admit it would have to be a custom 2gb 6970 or 580 for me to consider it within the coming months and they are not even out yet :laugh:
High end boards like the Asus WS supercomputer have 8 for 4x dual slot cards but thats it so only tri crossfire would be possible if the last card was overhanging. Though you wouldn't buy a high end motherboard and 3 mid range cards imo...
maybe this card built to break any 6850 records? while others only do dual-card CF setup, this one can do 3 or 4-card CF setup.
too bad only chinese guy will get a hand on this one though.
Not only are there ways of increasing the CCC OC limits but there is better software like rivatuner that you can use.
Some of the china-only cards look crazy, there's one or two in The graphics card with the hottest looks thread.
With such an efficient cooler, I'd like to see how this 6850 OC's
Good try by ColorFire anyway...
Although look at how nicely aligned they are could buy a pack of these and get nice cooling for 1.99
I mean they should of done this themselves but at-least it's not difficult for us.