Tuesday, March 27th 2012
Zalman Radeon HD 7950 Graphics Card Pictured
It's no news that Zalman is a graphics card vendor in its own might. The company is ready with its Radeon HD 7950 graphics card (model: ZALMAN HD7950-Z). The card uses a slightly customized AMD reference design PCB (customized with its color), augmented with Zalman's proven VF3000 VGA cooler. The VF3000 is a large aluminum fin heatsink to which heat is fed by copper heat pipes, ventilated by two large red LED-lit fans.
The cooler occupies three expansion slots, and is said to offer temperatures as low as 20°C below what the AMD reference cooler manages. This particular model sticks to AMD reference clock speeds, leaving it to end-users to take advantage of the cooler and overclock for themselves, although plans for an OC model are underway.
Source:
PC Watch Akiba
The cooler occupies three expansion slots, and is said to offer temperatures as low as 20°C below what the AMD reference cooler manages. This particular model sticks to AMD reference clock speeds, leaving it to end-users to take advantage of the cooler and overclock for themselves, although plans for an OC model are underway.
26 Comments on Zalman Radeon HD 7950 Graphics Card Pictured
Differentiation technique works better when we already have a different product
k10x
Black PCB and then it would look alright.
and one more, i dont see new things compared to the others cooling solution
If they made these changes, in my opinion it would be a great looking/selling card:
-Matte Black PCB
-Can keep the cooler design, make it double slot, and make it cover the whole card (sort of in the twinfrozer style from MSI)
Would look badass and keep the classic Zalman cooler design!
Seems a lot of trouble having a custom colour PCB made, only to plonk a red cooler on, even the black one would have looked better
Yall whine about the smallest things, make me wonder if all of you are a bunch of PMSing women right now.
1. The cooler has been on the market for some time, thus it works well enough to even be on the 7950. Performance of the cooler isn't a major concern, plus those who complain about how it doesn't attach to the ram- it probably doesn't need to- GDDR5 apparently stays fairly cool compared to GDDR3/DDR3.
1.a If you're a true overclocker they won't hand you everything to do so- overclocking used to take work and should still and is a art not a science, so just throw ramsinks or even a fan in the area. If you want the work already done and handed to you- buy a Lightning/ PCS+,Toxic/Atomic/VaporX
2. The Color Scheme is a definite change of pace as black on silver/copper/black all the time from every other board maker gets boring (Show off the hardware not hide it) Stands out for sure and I personally like the polished aluminum look of the card shroud.
2.a Atleast it's not OEM Green or Asus' Ugly Yellow/Cheese Color or Turd Fergason Brown.
2.b Stealthy Look?- peh In Aviation Field Black Stands out more on a blue sky than gray ever does. Plus Black has a high IR signature.
3. Just remember Blue PCB users were both HIS and Sapphire, I honestly miss the Red PCB of AMD cards.
4. If you don't like the card there is already other alternatives available that fit yall's tastes.
eidairaman1 man if you want red pcb try buying Diamond or PowerCooler Tul brands,They have RED PCB.