Friday, December 10th 2010
XFX Custom-Design Radeon HD 6850 Reaches Stores
XFX' in-house design AMD Radeon HD 6850 accelerator, was released to the markets, carrying a price tag of US $195. The card uses a custom high-performance dual-fan GPU cooler that makes use of a large aluminum fin array to which heat is conveyed by 8 mm thick copper heatpipes. The card also makes use of AMD reference speeds: 775 MHz core, and 1000 MHz (4000 MHz GDDR5 effective) memory. It draws power from one 6-pin PCI-E power connector, can pair with another HD 6800 series graphics card over CrossFireX, and includes display outputs of two DVI, an HDMI, and a DisplayPort.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
27 Comments on XFX Custom-Design Radeon HD 6850 Reaches Stores
(If I am wrong about anything I have said, please correct me...)
moonlightinglurking on other forums, most people would put the 6870 roughly 10% faster then a 5850 - so for a 5850 user to upgrade to a 6870 is a little pointless as adding a 2nd 5850 will give so much more performance and for less if you can find a good second hand one."Reeeeaaaal men of genius."
200mm or two 120mm fan in exhaust mode are fine with this type of graphics card.
Anyway this graphic card looks fantastic to me.
Im looking for reviews on these custom cards either 6850 or 70, i will probably buy the less noisy of the bunch...
No need for all that extra heatsink.
And i have a VF6000BNS case where a gfx cooler is almost sticking out of a perforated case side. And i have it on my desk 50cm from my head. Any closed case would make it even less noisy. And since internals are cool because of the exhaust system, you don't need 300 fans to cool the internals, other components are cooler, and thus les overall noise and less unnecessary fans needed just because the gfx doesn't have a crappy cooler.
But it's so easy to slam massive heatsink on it, route few heatpipes and call it a day than design a good exhaust cooler. That's why everyone are doing the crappy ones and not exhaust. Because it's easier.
I've had an aftermarket cooler on my HD4870 which should be silent. First of all it dumped half the heat into the case seriously heating it up, it was noisy even though i edited the fan profile to be as silent as possible and in the end, as soon as i was playing any modern game with FSAA, the fan was roaring with insane RPM despite my profile. And heat levels were high. With HD5850 which essentially has similar TDP and an exhaust cooler, it's far more silent, less noisy dumps the heat outside and is just plain better.
I guess i'll just always have to buy a graphic card very soon after launch when you can still get reference exhaust coolers. I was having huge problems finding such HD5850 already and finally found it in 1 store out of 30. If it ever dies and i RMA it, they'll send me this crappy design "aftermarket" cooler crap. Then i have to sell that one and buy a brand new with reference cooler again. Annoying process just because no one cares to offer reference coolers after a while. Lame.