Tuesday, July 6th 2010
PowerColor Vortex HD 5770 Lets You Tweak Cooler Air Flow
PowerColor's upcoming mid-range graphics card, the Vortex HD 5770, is said to feature a new feature that gives the user greater control of the fan's airflow, beyond fan-speed control. The cooler lets the user to fine-tune the direction and sweep of the fan air-flow, by allowing extension of the fan frame. With these adjustments, users can fine-tune the cooler's efficiency by directing airflow to specific parts of the aluminum heatsink underneath. Depending on how the fan is protruded or tilted, the card could occupy 2 to 3 expansion slots.
Apart from this cooling solution, the card reuses the PCB found on the PCS+ HD 5770, which is said to have factory-overclocked speeds, and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory. The Radeon HD 5770 is based on the 40 nm Juniper die. It is DirectX 11 compliant, and has 800 stream processors, a tessellation unit, and connects to 1 GB of memory over a 128-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. Display outputs on this card include two DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort, with ATI Eyefinity support. The PowerColor Vortex HD 5770 will be released in a few weeks' time. Incidentally, two PowerColor Vortex HD 5770 is up for grabs on the PowerColor and TechPowerUp GPU-Z Giveaway, so you can try your luck there.
Apart from this cooling solution, the card reuses the PCB found on the PCS+ HD 5770, which is said to have factory-overclocked speeds, and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory. The Radeon HD 5770 is based on the 40 nm Juniper die. It is DirectX 11 compliant, and has 800 stream processors, a tessellation unit, and connects to 1 GB of memory over a 128-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. Display outputs on this card include two DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort, with ATI Eyefinity support. The PowerColor Vortex HD 5770 will be released in a few weeks' time. Incidentally, two PowerColor Vortex HD 5770 is up for grabs on the PowerColor and TechPowerUp GPU-Z Giveaway, so you can try your luck there.
20 Comments on PowerColor Vortex HD 5770 Lets You Tweak Cooler Air Flow
That card looks kind of silly to me. :p
Anyway, it looks as the cooler is just a novelty, but if it is for HTPCs it could be justified.
I know it doesn't make sense to have the pcb of the PCS+ and be low-profile, but the bracket seems LP, that's all.
Give me a good performing, good sized, well cooled card that doesn't cool itself at the expense of the rest of the system and at least doesn't look butt ugly in my chassis' side window and I'm happy.
Oh wait, I'm talking about the stock Radeon HD5850 & HD5770 (5870 is out on size)... go figure...:p
same setup as the PowerColor HD5770 PCS+ 1GB shown here
www.hardware.info/nl-BE/productdb/bGpka5iZmJrKaMg/viewphoto/1
the point im trying to make is, if the heatsink is designed correctly then you shouldnt/wouldnt even need to have to direct air over a certain component of the card unless your suffering from OCD and feel the need to keep the VRMs under 0'c without having to resort to LN2.
I think its time for powercolour to get rid of some of their design staff n idiots on the payroll who come up with bum ideas like this that no one really gives a hoot about.
so long as the GPU are cooled within satisfactory levels with 'basic' no frills HS & fan setups, theres no need for such song n dance about products like this.
however if them came to us & said theyve made it so then can bolta 220-240mm fan to a small heatsink then that would be something else & possibly worthy of some interest
i also see nothing on the voltage regulation side either time for some trusty OCZ BGA Sinks me thinks