Sapphire Showcases Radeon Video Cards with Vapour Chamber Coolers

malware · Mar 6, 2009

ATI's official partner Sapphire Technology is showcasing a new type of video card cooling at CeBIT 2009. The VGA heatsink incorporates Vapour Chamber technology and will be featured on some of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 4870 video cards to come. The Vapour Chamber technology is a rather new kind of cooling technology for video cards, and until now it was used only by ASUS. In essence, it is very similar to the heat-pipe technology we've seen plenty of times before, taking heat and transferring it away from its source to a cooler area. However, in the Vapour Chamber technology the cooling effect is achieved not by a gas, but by a vacuum chamber. The heatsink occupies two PCI slots, and also features a big fan on top. Unfortunately, that's all the information we have for now.

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HolyCow02 · Mar 6, 2009

sweet. Can't wait to hear about some reviews on this.

DrPepper · Mar 6, 2009

Sounds awesome

better not be a flop though.

kiriakost · Mar 6, 2009

That looks like P4 Prescott cooler, on a large plate .

It was not the coolest cooler for the Prescotts , but for this use , it possibly helps well.

h3llb3nd4 · Mar 6, 2009

wonder what's the temp of that card.... Very interested I am

nafets · Mar 6, 2009

...The Vapour Chamber technology is a rather new kind of cooling technology for video cards, and until now it was used only by ASUS...

Huh? Apparently Sapphire's own Vapor-X cooler, used on it's own HD3870/4870 TOXIC models doesn't apply. An small oversight, I'd say.

This new version of the Vapor-X cooler is more of a revamp, than anything really new. Bigger fan, redesigned heatsink with "vapour chamber" technology, and a different shroud.

Interesting, to say the least...

gvblake22 · Mar 6, 2009

I was kindof thinking the same thing nafets; this has all been done before, nothing really new here. Hopefully we see this type of cooling on more than one lone product like before.

djisas · Mar 6, 2009

nafets said:
Huh? Apparently Sapphire's own Vapor-X cooler, used on it's own HD3870/4870 TOXIC models doesn't apply. An small oversight, I'd say.

This new version of the Vapor-X cooler is more of a revamp, than anything really new. Bigger fan, redesigned heatsink with "vapour chamber" technology, and a different shroud.

Interesting, to say the least...

Or the 3870 atomic, the first to use it, i wanted one badly but never managed to get my hands on one and latter bought a 8800gts g92...

erocker · Mar 6, 2009

kiriakost said:
That looks like P4 Prescott cooler, on a large plate .

It was not the coolest cooler for the Prescotts , but for this use , it possibly helps well.

Yes! It looks like the silver puck of a HSF that you get with a E8400 processor. The fancy plastic shroud looks nice though.

theorw · Mar 6, 2009

nafets said:
Huh? Apparently Sapphire's own Vapor-X cooler, used on it's own HD3870/4870 TOXIC models doesn't apply. An small oversight, I'd say.

This new version of the Vapor-X cooler is more of a revamp, than anything really new. Bigger fan, redesigned heatsink with "vapour chamber" technology, and a different shroud.

Interesting, to say the least...

+1
FUNNY!I thought my SAPPHIRE 3870 TOXIC had vapor chamber too...
They must really take customers for idiots!!!!!!!!

Marineborn · Mar 6, 2009

i have a 3870 with vapor technology doesnt even have a dam fan on it, i oced that beeotch and it didnt move above 40c at load NO LIE! things a beast

DrPepper · Mar 7, 2009

From the underside I noticed this card has 2 8 pin connectors. At least thats what the connectors solder points look like.

djisas · Mar 7, 2009

2 8 pin??
Not even the hd2900 nor any of the x2 cards had 2 of those and from what i see its 6x2

DrPepper · Mar 7, 2009

djisas said:
2 8 pin??
Not even the hd2900 nor any of the x2 cards had 2 of those and from what i see its 6x2

Download the picture and zoom in and you will see what looks like two 8 pin solder points

I agree its very strange if it does have that many connectors.

nafets · Mar 7, 2009

There are 12 solder points total, visible from the backside; Comes out to two 6-pin PCI-E connectors...

DrPepper · Mar 7, 2009

nafets said:
There are 12 solder points total, visible from the backside; Comes out to two 6-pin PCI-E connectors...

I need to lay off the coke :rolleyes:

I mean pepsi.

Damn I feel dumb :laugh:

eidairaman1 · Mar 7, 2009

neat lookin cooler altho from the side it looks like an orb.

djisas · Mar 7, 2009

lets see if it can cool it down to under 80 and be silent...
A silent system is the best...

Haytch · Mar 7, 2009

Unless im on ice, my main objective is to get rid of the heat created in my systems as opposed to forcing cooler air into the system.

To Vacum the heat thru the heatpipes could work, but the outer layer of the heatpipes would have to be engineered to compensate in cases of heat being too much for the vacum system.
Its not a new idea, and it probably hasnt kicked off yet because im sure they would suffer the above symptom untill improved in time. The Fan makes sure the card stays at ideal temperatures.

Damn thermal resistance. . .
Newton's law of cooling pisses me right off!

jagass · Mar 7, 2009

Nice info man...Does anyone has tried this?...

ZoneDymo · Mar 7, 2009

This is the 4850, it uses 1 x 6-pin connecter.
You can see the connector on the first pic, its sticking out a bit.

LittleLizard · Mar 7, 2009

looks freakin awesome

nafets · Mar 7, 2009

ZoneDymo said:
This is the 4850, it uses 1 x 6-pin connecter.
You can see the connector on the first pic, its sticking out a bit.

There are two different PCBs shown, with unknown GPUs.

The first and last pics are of the same card, using 1 6-pin PCI-E connector. Mainly showing off the "new" cooler. Could be a HD4850.

The middle pic is of a different card, using 2 6-pin PCI-E connectors. Mainly showing off the backside memory heatsink. Could be a HD4870 with 2GB GDDR5 memory (hence the memory heatsink on the back).

Hayder_Master · Mar 8, 2009

this design cooler better than toxic cooler design , nice

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