Saturday, July 19th 2008
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PowerColor Radeon HD 4870 PCS OC Emerges
PowerColor is preparing an overclocked Radeon HD4870, the PCS (Professional Cooling System) model. This model uses 1 GB of GDDR5 memory and uses overclocked parameters, such as 800 MHz core. This card comes with a cooler made by Zerotherm comprising of heatpipes conducting to aluminum fins on either sides of a fan. According to TG Daily, this card could be based on the SuperRV770 concept, where high-performing parts are used along with 1 GB of GDDR5 memory. According to PowerColor, this cooler could keep the temperatures down by up to 20° C versus reference ATI cooler even at the overclocked 800 MHz core setting.
Sources:
PCGH, TG Daily
27 Comments on PowerColor Radeon HD 4870 PCS OC Emerges
and when?!?!?!
this card ownz :respect:
edit: oh only 3pin fan :( PWM would be better (and no pwm slot in the card).
I like the stock cooler better, this seems like a downgrade to me.
it looks like the coolers on the old 7800gtx's to me.
The more air that blown across the heatsink the cooler the GPU becomes thus the lower the radiant heat that's produced from the GPU.
In other words, aftermarket coolers will always be better than stock :toast: