Thursday, April 14th 2011

PowerColor HD 6850 SCS3 Silent Graphics Card Final Iteration Pictured

Perhaps the fastest silent graphics card in the making, PowerColor's new HD 6850 SCS3 finally taken shape, and will launch soon. The card was spotted first in November 2010, but has since undergone many little changes, particularly with its PCB and components. The card is designed to draw power from one 6-pin power connector, and run the GPU at reference speeds, while relying entirely on a massive heatsink to cool it. The heatsink uses five copper heat pipes to draw heat directly from the GPU, and through the large aluminum fin array. The HD 6850 features 960 stream processors, and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory over a 256-bit wide memory interface.
Source: VR-Zone
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31 Comments on PowerColor HD 6850 SCS3 Silent Graphics Card Final Iteration Pictured

#26
pantherx12
Thefumigator2 of these in crossfire and your PC would look more like a car engine
Even better! :laugh:
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#27
Xaser04
OneMoarsteps for awesome
order
strap a 120 Noctua N-P14 flx to the heatsink with zippy ties
overclock and unlock
profit ?????
Unlock a HD6850 :wtf:

Would certainly be sweet if you could.

It looks like the cooler has been designed to work in conjunction with a decent silent side case fan.
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#28
Thrackan
Waiting for the first OM NOM NOM NOM paint...
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#29
gvblake22
Thefumigator2 of these in crossfire and your PC would look more like a car engine
I remember when I was installing my shiny new Thermalright XP-90, my girlfriend was watching the process and she commented that it looked like a motorcycle engine.
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#30
johnnyfiive
theubersmurfW.T.H. Leaving the temperature up to the ambient temperature of the case seems like a bad idea to me. I get the feeling the best way to make sure the card is sufficiently cooled is to attach a fan...destroying it's value as a silent card.
wrong. :shadedshu
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#31
damric
This would be the great in my case. I wonder if any vendors sell this particular heatsink so I could put it on my 6850's that I already own?
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