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New ASUS HD4870 released!!

I read somewhere that the enhanced power circuitry makes it run cooler..well at least that was the case for the ASUS TOP 4870x2 so I'm not sure about this one.
 
Been out a while now as thats the one these guys are doing, very good cooler, its the same one as on their 8800 GT's. :)
 
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Credo said:
No rear venting on such a hot running GPU = hot case temps if you ask me...
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Wrong, in the days of tiny beige boxes with a singel 60mm fan at the rear, sure maybe, in the days of even just a front and rear 120mm low speed quiet fan and frankly, the case air(in a decent case) will be replaced very often, it makes next to no difference whatsoever. The rear venting heatsinks are ALL utter crap, not one comes close to the performance of a sink with a normal higher airflow fan. Considering there isn't a cpu out(pretty much) that can't be overclocked on a stock cooler to the point where essentially no games out(maybe FSX) are cpu limited, heating up the air in the case means next to nothing anyway. The only overclock that matters in terms of gaming is the gpu anyway. the blower fans are overly loud for utterly woeful performance and in general the design of such sinks = more likely to get clogged up with dust which is hard to clean out aswell and harder to replace fans if they fail, they are just awful in every single way.

Monkeynut said:
DDR5 is supposed to run relatively cool.
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I don't think theres really been a card out that really required memory cooling. System memory still runs hotter due to "heat spreaders" than they run without because in general those who run more sticks get no airflow inbetween the mem sticks due to the width of the sinks. Mostly gddr has also suffered from the same. The only reason big sinks have thermal pads for the mem is they are so large they kill all airflow over the memory. A smaller sink thats not impeding airflow over the memory and you're better without the heatsinks.
 
I bought this card in the end and i can say its pretty good

it idles at 46 degrees with the fan turned down to 25% and never goes above 70 degrees after 2 hours of running ATI tool artifact checker.

I havent tried clocking it...yet

Ferret
 
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