PowerColor Readies First Passive-Cooled HD 6850 Graphics Card

bear jesus · Nov 25, 2010

With 5 heat pipes and a massive amount of such large fins it looks like it will do a great job keeping it cool, i admit if i had one i would strap a couple of truly silent fans to it.. saying that with a couple silent fans I'm sure it would do a great job cooling a 6870 even when overclocked.

tkpenalty · Nov 25, 2010

looks like that card will be replacing my 8800GT which has a similar cooling solution to that

would love to bolt a half height slow 120mm fan onto it

EDIT: NOOO MY PRECIOUS STARS D:

gumpty · Nov 25, 2010

wolf said:
not a fan of this card.

This card doesn't care ... it doesn't need fans! :roll:

Seriously though ... :eek:

... this looks awesome for those of us that crave silence. Get two of these crossfired and just plonk a low-rpm 120mm or 140mm fan across the top of them (pushing or pulling - probably wouldn't matter) = dead silent gaming. Brilliant.

I imagine the people at silentpcreview just got a hard on.

Hayder_Master · Nov 25, 2010

i don't know how they thing to made gaming graphic card with no fan Dispersion the hot air in heat sink
or maybe they should say please to make this product work u should pay 100$ for good case with good air cooling and be sure there is a side fan for the graphic card, and better if there back fans too to take hot air from the card please

micropage7 · Nov 25, 2010

actually look nice, PowerColor push the card to the silent area, from the heat pipe it really looks serious :twitch:

pantherx12 · Nov 25, 2010

bear jesus said:
With 5 heat pipes and a massive amount of such large fins it looks like it will do a great job keeping it cool, i admit if i had one i would strap a couple of truly silent fans to it.. saying that with a couple silent fans I'm sure it would do a great job cooling a 6870 even when overclocked.

I wouldn't strap fans to them, they look heavy as BS already :laugh:

Side-panel fan I would go for, although with a shroud between it and the side panel ( firstly reduces turbulence from the mesh/grill of the side panel which is nice obviously, and second the fans will be pretty much touching the side of the heat-sink in a 20cm wide case. )

BAM epic cooling, I had a set up like that with a thermalright t-rad2 in passive mode ( fan brackets are removed) and I could run my 4850 with a massive over-clock completely passive and still have better temperatures than the stock cooling solution :laugh:

bear jesus · Nov 25, 2010

pantherx12 said:
I wouldn't strap fans to them, they look heavy as BS already

Side-panel fan I would go for, although with a shroud between it and the side panel ( firstly reduces turbulence from the mesh/grill of the side panel which is nice obviously, and second the fans will be pretty much touching the side of the heat-sink in a 20cm wide case. )

BAM epic cooling, I had a set up like that with a thermalright t-rad2 in passive mode ( fan brackets are removed) and I could run my 4850 with a massive over-clock completely passive and still have better temperatures than the stock cooling solution

Good point with the weight, i have not used a case for a long time so when i was strapping multiple fans to my 4870 they were resting on the motherboard just being held against the heatsink and not supported by the 4 tiny little screws that hold the heatsink on :laugh:

The T-rad is one hell of a cooler, i must admit i want something crazy big to put on a 6970, maybe a thermalright shaman

pantherx12 · Nov 25, 2010

I'm running without a case atm would just have a fan somewhere blowing at them anyway XD

bear jesus · Nov 25, 2010

pantherx12 said:
I'm running without a case atm would just have a fan somewhere blowing at them anyway XD

to be honest i have a bunch of fans all around mine trying to keep every single part cool, a heat sink like this one would go great with my setup... just a shame I'm not looking to downgrade to a 6850 :laugh:

WarEagleAU · Nov 26, 2010

awesome. AMD really came a long way with heat and power envelope. Not sure Id go with passive, I love cooling, fan noise isn't much of a concern unless its like them Sanyo Denki's or server fans.

Cheeseball · Nov 26, 2010

I'm betting, like the other PowerColor cards, they screwed up by placing a cheaper voltage controller and cheaper PCB (that's the reason why it's not the cool-looking black).

btarunr · Nov 26, 2010

Cheeseball said:
I'm betting, like the other PowerColor cards, they screwed up by placing a cheaper voltage controller and cheaper PCB (that's the reason why it's not the cool-looking black).

It's the other way round. PowerColor uses higher-grade components (such as digital PWM, Volterra-made voltage controller) on its SCS3 and Go! Green cards.

Cheeseball · Nov 26, 2010

Well, I'm not sure about the SCS3 and Go! series. (AFAIK, I do remember hearing that the HD 5750 Go! does have a better voltage controller.) But if you've ever seen or used the PCS and PCS+ series, you'll know they used a cheaper voltage controller and thinner PCB. The only thing good about PCS/PCS+ is the custom HSF they use, but even that could take a backseat. (2pin non-PWM fans, like the Accelero L2)

filip007 · Nov 27, 2010

Well you can still put a fan on it with RPM control.

TAViX · Nov 27, 2010

Black Hades said:
Looks like the radiator I use to heat up my room.

Except this one is for cooling!! :rolleyes:

But the thing is, while that radiator will cool the card, it will also ON THE SAME TIME, warm the inside of you case, because, like Black said, it acts just like a heating radiator. So If I would buy this sucker I would definitely put at least 1 120mm high flow fan.

pantherx12 · Nov 27, 2010

TAViX said:
Except this one is for cooling!!

But the thing is, while that radiator will cool the card, it will also ON THE SAME TIME, warm the inside of you case, because, like Black said, it acts just like a heating radiator. So If I would buy this sucker I would definitely put at least 1 120mm high flow fan.

I'm sure a side panel fan and a decent exhaust would be plenty for these bad boys : ]

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