Tuesday, September 30th 2008
ASUS and MSI Innovate Custom Cooling over Referece HD 4550, HD 4350 PCBs
AMD released the Radeon HD 4550 and Radeon HD 4350 graphics cards today. With their introduction, AMD allowed the AIB partners to roll out custom designs right away. Sapphire and Force3D have already taken the advantage of releasing their own PCBs, while ASUS and MSI have used the reference PCB design with their own coolers. ASUS for one (model: EAH4550/DI/512MD3), has used a black metal chunk with projecting metal that is actively cooled, while MSI (model: R4350-D512H/R4350-D256H) adopted passive cooling with a single large heatsink. The only glitch, is that the heatsink spans across two expansion slots. MSI has already released its card, while ASUS releases its card soon. Both cards use reference ATI parameters, and could carry price-tags around the US $60~$40 marks.
17 Comments on ASUS and MSI Innovate Custom Cooling over Referece HD 4550, HD 4350 PCBs
GPU: 600 up 850
RAM: 400 (800) up 500 (1000)
:cool:
You also win the holy crap this was a old 2 year thread award. :p
But are those who use this type of graphics card
Unfortunately, the memory Graphic card 4350, not more than 500 MHz overclock
These weak bonds graphics card, raising the core frequency from 600 to 850 can be called a miracle
I can take my onboard GPU in my second PC from 500MHz to 1150MHz - a miracle! but the performance is still too slow to play any modern games even on lowest settings.
the condition, excellent ventilation inside the case is
I have HD 5850. I did not test cholera
4350:
Windows 7 64-bit rate from Graphic 3.8 to 4.3 changed
This change is low?
but who does not spend more than 40$, not much is expected
If a cheap card overclocked to match a more expensive card, then people are interested and want to know about it. But overclocking a $40 card to be as fast as a $50 card, is just not interesting.
(I have tried to keep my language simple, i can tell you are using a translator)
but the test it does not hurt