Sapphire Preps Custom HD 4770 Accelerator, Too

[btarunr]

Following the likes of PowerColor and HIS, Sapphire, one of AMD's largest AIB partners, is preparing a custom-design Radeon HD 4770 accelerator. Highlights of this card are strictly confined to its design and cooling, not that it has a brighter specs sheet compared to the reference design. It uses a blue colored PCB with a heat-spreader over the card's VRM area, and the GPU is cooled by an Accelero L2 variant originally made by Arctic Cooling. Display outputs include DVI-D, D-Sub, and HDMI. Specifications-wise, the accelerator sticks to AMD reference clock speeds of 750/800 MHz (core/memory), and sports 512 MB of GDDR5 memory across a 128-bit interface. Again, expect standard pricing on this one.



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[Cheeseball]

Finally, a blue PCB. This would look good with my ASRock board...

 

[ZoneDymo]

and yet again freaking dual slot

 

[eidairaman1]

Well dude id rather have the dual slot than the single slot now, if you dont like it so much go and get a Stock 4850.

My only beef is this card is only 512, Gimme a 1-2GB board.

 

[MopeyMartian]

Hopefully the next generation's cards will include 256-bit, more RAM and a non-cookie cutter cooler.

 

[tkpenalty]

and yet again freaking dual slot

Any particular problem with that? I'd prefer having a dual slot card that lasts rather than having a single slot card that fails in a few months. You do realise how hot the refernece single slot designs run?