Wednesday, April 11th 2007

R600 "naked"

Fudzilla has managed to snap a picture of the R600 card - this time, with the cooler off. By the looks of it, pictures of the core found on the web a few months ago didn't lie:

The card above has 1024 MB of memory and "some dodgy drivers". It is interesting to see the core tilted the way it is. This will disable all current water cooling blocks (and perhaps air heatsinks) from being compatible with the card. An adapter, or a different retention mechanism, could perhaps fix this. Also note that ATI's R600 does not use a heatspreader on the core.

In addition, the card uses 2 power connectors: 1 standard 6-pin PCI Express, and 1 8-pin connector:

All of the pictures are from the 12 inch card, which should be identical to the smaller version (except for the heatsink).
Source: Fudzilla
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32 Comments on R600 "naked"

#26
WeStSiDePLaYa
Flintvery rare to see that..the Nvidia 8800's IHS being the only one I believe.
FX series. 59XX 100% sure. as i took it off my old 5950.
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#28
Flint
WeStSiDePLaYaFX series. 59XX 100% sure. as i took it off my old 5950.
Thanks, Westside..I had forgotten this one.

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#29
Batou1986
looking at the size of that copper heatsink this things gona be hot as hell
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#30
WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
maybe so, but its going to be the most powerful card too. dont complain now. hell nvidia still has a monster card with huge power requirements
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#31
tkpenalty
whats the point of an IHS anyway?
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#32
Flint
An integrated heat spreader is usually installed for two reasons:

1. To protect the silicon die from the weight and pressure of the heatsink.

2. To give a larger surface area for the heatsink to make contact with, thereby increasing thermal transfer.
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