Monday, March 21st 2011
Single-Slot, Slot-Powered Radeon HD 6850 Surfaces in Asia
Unknown to the west, Hong Kong-based graphics card manufacturer, AFOX, that caters to Far-East markets such as Japan, unveiled a new AMD Radeon HD 6850 1 GB graphics card that sports a single-slot design, and completely relies on the PCI Express slot for power. Most, if not all, Radeon HD 6850 graphics cards feature double-slot coolers, and require a 6-pin PCI-E power input, which is not the case with AFOX' new card.
The AF6850-1024D5S1 from AFOX features a red PCB, a black single slot cooler that covers all of the board's obverse side, and looks to feature a dense heatsink to which air is circulated by a blower. The card uses reference clock speeds of 775 MHz core, 1000 MHz (4.00 GHz GDDR5 effective) memory. The HD 6850 is rated by AMD to have 127W typical max power draw. It would be interesting to see how the card is managing to run the GPU with the slot's 75W. What's more, the card doesn't compromise in the display connectors department, packing one each of DVI, full-size HDMI 1.4a, full-size DisplayPort 1.2, and mini-DisplayPort 1.2. In Japan, the card is priced at 19,780 Yen, which converts to US $245.
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The AF6850-1024D5S1 from AFOX features a red PCB, a black single slot cooler that covers all of the board's obverse side, and looks to feature a dense heatsink to which air is circulated by a blower. The card uses reference clock speeds of 775 MHz core, 1000 MHz (4.00 GHz GDDR5 effective) memory. The HD 6850 is rated by AMD to have 127W typical max power draw. It would be interesting to see how the card is managing to run the GPU with the slot's 75W. What's more, the card doesn't compromise in the display connectors department, packing one each of DVI, full-size HDMI 1.4a, full-size DisplayPort 1.2, and mini-DisplayPort 1.2. In Japan, the card is priced at 19,780 Yen, which converts to US $245.
41 Comments on Single-Slot, Slot-Powered Radeon HD 6850 Surfaces in Asia
I don't see why they didn't just put the PCI-E power connector on the PCB, it has the holes for it already there. Now people are going to be buying the card and then wondering why their PCI-E slots, or ATX Power connector, fried.
My 8600GT is single-slot and requires a PCI-E power cable...
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Lol Yep. EVGA.
See HERE
If you're talking about EVGA's adapter, sure it does. There's just never been a need for it till now, or at least only need in specific situations.
This assumes you know nothing about it:
All the EVGA adapter does is provide another path (i.e. more capacity for current) for electricity to flow between the PCIe devices and the PSU, bypassing the already near overloaded ATX connector. If you're overclocking your CPU and have many fans, PCI and PCIe bus powered devices (or out-of-spec PCIe bus-powered devices), it's not unheard of to melt the ATX connector. That's why you don't want to use a 20-pin PSU on a 24-pin mobo. Those extra 4 pins are just more copper for current to flow through, not different rails or anything.
Now we just need to worry about the PCIe slot melting from over-current :roll:
Although AFIK the PCIe connector is over-specced for the current allowed in the PCIe spec.
thankfully, those are fairly common.