ColorFire Releases Xstorm HD 6850 Graphics Card, Breaks Vantage Record

btarunr · Mar 11, 2011

ColorFire released its new Xstorm HD 6850 graphics card. ColorFire is a sister-brand of Colorful, which focuses on AMD Radeon-based graphics cards, as Colorful specializes on NVIDIA GeForce ones. Shortly after its introduction, the ColorFire team led by overclocker Carl from China was able to break a 3DMark Vantage record for the Radeon HD 6850. The overclocker achieved P27751 points, some 3810 points ahead of the previous record-holder. The card sustained overclocked speeds of 1500 MHz core and 1275 MHz (5100 MHz GDDR5 effective) memory, and backed by an Intel Core i7-980X clocked at 5.7 GHz, with the entire setup being cooled by liquid nitrogen. The HWBOT validation can be found here.

The Xstorm HD 6850 from ColorFire features the same mid-range exorbitance characteristic of Colorful. It features a PCB with a strong VRM, making use of high-quality components; and a large cooler. It features 1 GB of memory, a 4+1 phase VRM, dual-BIOS, OCP unlock switches, and consolidated voltage-measure points. The VRM uses high-grade chokes and POSCAP capacitors. The cooler uses a large (quiet) fan to cool a big heatsink to which heat is conveyed by three heat pipes.

More pictures of the setup and card follow.

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RadeonProVega · Mar 11, 2011

WOW that looks also. Why does it need 2 pins? I thought the 6850's only require one.

DrPepper · Mar 11, 2011

u2konline said:
WOW that looks also. Why does it need 2 pins? I thought the 6850's only require one.

For more power ?

It was running at 1500mhz core as well and one 6pin wouldn't supply enough juice.

EastCoasthandle · Mar 11, 2011

I would love to see how well that fan performs!

Lionheart · Mar 11, 2011

Little BEAST!

RejZoR · Mar 11, 2011

Interesting looking card...

Kitkat · Mar 11, 2011

u2konline said:
WOW that looks also. Why does it need 2 pins? I thought the 6850's only require one.

card isnt in the "NEED" category. More like the want. They wanted to break a record.

Wile E · Mar 11, 2011

Who the hell is Colorful/ColorFire?

Urbklr · Mar 11, 2011

This^

Radical_Edward · Mar 11, 2011

Looks good.

20mmrain · Mar 11, 2011

Holy Chit.... LOL Beat a GTX 580 with a card that costs less then half as much!!!

ebolamonkey3 · Mar 11, 2011

Why not a 6870??

Jack Doph · Mar 11, 2011

I've tried to Google this mob, but seem unable to find their website..
Do they have one?

erixx · Mar 11, 2011

Looks good, but cooling performance not optimal. Makes no sense.

Kitkat · Mar 11, 2011

erixx said:
Looks good, but cooling performance not optimal. Makes no sense.

Sense:
heatsink move heat. fan go woosh. woosh blow heat.
*motions with her hands*

Everyone's anal expiation of "optimal" is tiring. It'll never be "optimal" enough trust me.

Jack Doph · Mar 11, 2011

Kitkat said:
Sense:
heatsink move heat. fan go woosh. woosh blow heat.
*motions with her hands*

Everyone's anal expiation of "optimal" is tiring. It'll never be "optimal" enough trust me.

Optimal is when it's no longer needed

Cyanigosa · Mar 11, 2011

Jack Doph said:
I've tried to Google this mob, but seem unable to find their website..
Do they have one?

ColorFire is a Chinese brand. Their website is http://www.colorfire.net/
It seems that there is no english version.

Jack Doph · Mar 11, 2011

Cheers muchly mate.
I shall endeavour to .. well, decipher it

Over_Lord · Mar 11, 2011

the memory overclock is so below-average

Wile E · Mar 11, 2011

thunderising said:
the memory overclock is so below-average

Meh. Clocking the memory doesn't net you much. GPU is much more important.

fochkoph · Mar 11, 2011

I'd love to see them jam two of those fans onto that heatsink. Then sell it over here in the states with a great warranty to back it up. :rockout:

Athlonite · Mar 13, 2011

I quite like the looks but doubt it'll ever make it to our shores for retail sales

Kitkat · Mar 14, 2011

Jack Doph said:
Optimal is when it's no longer needed

Kitkat said:
card isnt in the "NEED" category. More like the want. They wanted to break a record.

first comment.

Marineborn · Mar 14, 2011

interesting design, seems a little late in the ballgame to be throwing this card out on the markey with claims of awesomeness

Kitkat · Mar 14, 2011

Marineborn said:
interesting design, seems a little late in the ballgame to be throwing this card out on the markey with claims of awesomeness

its not to late to make a record breaking anything. Some of the best stuff comes later. I remember when ROG cards and boards were REALLY ROG and came out towards the end now they launch with them. Sure there cool but the best stuff comes after everyone has messed around with it. If someone has something better to offer by all means do it. Not everyone buying a card buys it on launch day. Believe it or not someones buying 6850s right now.... and now..... and now. Never to late to market anything. 6850 is still relatively new (thought cards now come at a faster rate).

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