Wednesday, September 23rd 2009
Sapphire HD 5870 Vapor-X Spotted
Less than 24 hours after its launch, one of the first custom design accelerators based on the Radeon HD 5870 have began to surface, one of the first ones made by Sapphire. Whether or not this is a complete custom design (includes custom designed PCB and coolers), Sapphire is ready with at least its Vapor-X cooler designed for the new GPU. This picture found on Xtreme Systems forums shows the cooler fitted on the AMD reference PCB. However, a newly announced contest conducted by Hexus.net shows a CGI drawing of the accelerator in its promotional graphic, which shows the PCB to be slightly shorter, and blue in colour. One can also see from the drawing that the PCI-E power connectors are located at the same spot where they were located on most Radeon HD 4890 accelerators. Hopefully cheaper, or at least factory-overclocked accelerators aren't far away.
Sources:
Xtreme Systems Forums, Hexus.net
38 Comments on Sapphire HD 5870 Vapor-X Spotted
Still too long of a card.
The card looks pretty cool, too and VaporX is great technology, so is the one I'd choose if I was upgrading to a 5870.
*crosses fingers*
Don't let me down Sapphire!
There is a contest to win it, too bad it is only for UK : (
I must say, I like the cooler
Yes :o
Edit: there are 2 different fans pictured above. The first blade looks like the Toxic cooler fan and the second pict has a more developed (better) fan blade, I wonder what blade they will use in the final one?
one other tidbit, the Vapor X coolers/Toxic on the 4870s were steel.(not alum or copper). These coolers look like the Toxic cooler thats been modified, I hope these are better made.
Here is a shot of the poorly designed Toxic cooler from a 4870(notice the heat tubes smashed flat)