Saturday, December 13th 2008
SAPPHIRE Launches Special Water Cooled ATOMIC HD 4870 X2 Video Card
SAPPHIRE Technology is now introducing the SAPPHIRE ATOMIC HD 4870 X2, an exclusive new dual GPU water cooled version of the standard ATI HD 4870 X2 card. Because the article is written in Greek which is not my strongest language, I'll stick to the specs and pics, after all that's all we need. As usual, the SAPPHIRE ATOMIC HD 4870 X2 comprises of two complete HD 4870 graphics systems on a single PCI-Express card connected by an on-board PCI Express Gen 2 bridge chip. Each GPU has 1GB of GDDR5 memory, making a total of 2GB on-board memory. Core clock speed for this model is 800MHz, there are 2x800 stream processors, the memory clock speed is 1000MHz with 512-bit memory interface. What's so special in this model is the full cover liquid cooling provided by the famous OEM cooling expert Asetek. The water-block cools both GPUs, all memory chips, the bridge chip and all the power elements. Two Dual Link DVI outputs are provided as well as TV-Out. Additionally the card's bundle includes a CCL UV lamp and Sapphire USB memory stick with drivers. The card will be available starting December 18th for a MSRP of $649.
Source:
hwbox
20 Comments on SAPPHIRE Launches Special Water Cooled ATOMIC HD 4870 X2 Video Card
Really? Is just a single-rad going to cool that card effectively?
CPU + HD4870x2 being cooled by a 120 rad will never work.
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And it looks very similar to this:
www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=119
Edit: that cylindrical thing is reservoir+pump.
This is a great deal. One can't crib about the small radiator unless it's proven it sucks.
this is the way to go. This is a great card and the block should do its job. And if one has a WC already installed this is a case of just adding the card to it, leaving out the rad and pump!