Thursday, August 20th 2009
HIS Prepares its HD 4770 Custom-Design Accelerator
Following custom-design product launches from the likes of PowerColor, HIS decided to roll out one of its own. Named the HIS HD 4770 iCooler III, the color scheme is trademark HIS shade of blue with black. The company custom-designed both the PCB and the cooler. Under the black plastic shroud is what appears to be an aluminum heatsink with radially-projecting fins, nested into which, is the fan.
Despite all this, the clock speeds remain reference 750 MHz (core) and 800 MHz (memory). It holds 512 MB of GDDR5 memory across a 128-bit wide interface. Outputs are care of DVI-D, D-Sub, and HDMI with 7.1 channel audio. Expect a fairly standard price when this comes out.
Source:
DonanimHaber
Despite all this, the clock speeds remain reference 750 MHz (core) and 800 MHz (memory). It holds 512 MB of GDDR5 memory across a 128-bit wide interface. Outputs are care of DVI-D, D-Sub, and HDMI with 7.1 channel audio. Expect a fairly standard price when this comes out.
9 Comments on HIS Prepares its HD 4770 Custom-Design Accelerator
With a single slot you could decendly Crossfire them and its not like its some super high end card that needs some intense cooling.
That said... iWouldn't mind having this card. The cooler looks to be pretty good, minus the crappy iName.
NOBODY wants DSUB on a modern GPU. Everyone is on DVI or HDMI. And for those that arent, dongle the DVI. Two DVI outs allow for a workstation dual monitor setup.
And the thing is DUAL SLOT. They could have put 2 HDMIs 2 DVIs and 2DSUBs if they wanted to!
And IF someone wants to say they have a "custom designed" 4770, then let it now be the blxxdy colour of the PCB. After all, this thing is INSIDE the case, who cares about the colour.
Custom = unique features that are truely differentiated from the competition. How about a 4770x2.
My point is, AMD's partners probably have tons of theses older RV770 chips out on the market, and they want them all sold before they let their partners "enhance" the RV740. I'm sure, that ideally, AMD only wants in the market for the mid to high-end, RV740 and RV790 chips (and have all the others already sold).