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Powercolor 7970 GHZ Vortex III Tease Picture

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Here we have the first tease shot of Powercolor's upcoming 7970 GHz edition, not much to see apart from the cooler though which happens to be a 3 slot job much like Asus's DCU II's.

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'PowerColor Teases with Vortex III Cooling Solution
Keeping up with a trend pioneered by the likes of ASUS, ZOTAC, and others, PowerColor is working on a high-performance albeit triple-slot graphics card cooling solution called Vortex III, which the company plans to implement on upcoming Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition graphics cards. A teaser picture, which reveals quite a bit about the new cooler, was posted by DonanimHaber. The picture reveals the cooler to use a black+red color scheme matching with a black colored PCB, a design that appears to occupy three expansion slots, and three fans ventilating a large aluminum fin heatsink below them. PowerColor is likely to exhibit new graphics cards that implement the Vortex III cooling solution, at Computex 2012.'


http://www.techpowerup.com/166554/PowerColor-Teases-with-Vortex-III-Cooling-Solution.html

Hopefully the coolers there for a reason and the 'GHz' does actually do something the existing stock/custom 7970's don't already do.
 
Looks a little like the Devil 13 6970, and no doubt they will slap on a similar price tag relative to the Devil. Looks good, though I'd rather source other 7970's.
 
Very hard to tell from one pitcture but it appears as if the fans are much thinner than on the Asus DC and the heatsink is much closer to the bottom of the fan. That's a good thing by the way.

The asus has a deep fan, then a ridiculous gap between the fan and the heatsink, basically wasted space and an overly thin heatsink. The fans on the asus are great at stock but above 1.15v it quickly seemed to run out of capacity for cooling and temps or fan noise went up considerably.

Similar design with a much thicker actually heatsink would have worked so much better so if Powercolor do that right, it will be decent.
 
want it - ghz edition is supposed to be better. and it will have the quietness of the asus, but with better vram heatsinks hopefully, and the ability to actually overvolt. since i only want a single card, this seems to fit the bill. maybe the coil whine's been fixed as well...?
 
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not if you have a big case but never want to cf or sli. i think the additional cooling is worth another of my 7 unused slots :p

apparently it has 6gb vram, and the fans are supposedly smaller than 80mm. it does kind of look that way...
 
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PorkPieCat said:
not if you have a big case but never want to cf or sli. i think the additional cooling is worth another of my 7 unused slots :p

apparently it has 6gb vram, and the fans are supposedly smaller than 80mm. it does kind of look that way...
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What about when the card reaches 2-3 years old? SLI/CF in many cases would be worth doing more than buying a brand new single card all over again.

I just don't see why they need to make them so thick in the first place.
 
i'd hope to sell it off and get the newest single card of 2/3 years in the future. and i think it's not so much a need as another idea to make more revenue from the already easily-suggestible gaming oriented consumer. but it works, because i kind of want it :3.

3 slot coolers are supposedly very quiet. 1 slot coolers would be cool, but everyone wants to overclock, and quietly, so...
 
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