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Powercolor's HD 4870 PCS details

by on21 July 2008

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Comes in two versions

We managed to get more details about the upcoming Powercolor HD 4870 PCS card, the same one that was pictured recently. According to our sources, this card will be available in two versions, the 512MB and the 1GB version and both of the cards will be cooled by Powercolor's PCS cooling. We managed to confirm that the GPU will be overclocked to 800MHz.

The cooler itself is custom made by Zerotherm and it comes with dual S-shape 6mm diameter heatpipes which are connected to no less than 94 aluminum fins. The heatsink is cooled by a 2 ball bearing 8 cm fan. As we wrote before, this should reduce the cards temperature up to 20°C when compared to the reference cooling.

Another interesting detail is the card's phase power design, as Powercolor decided to change some things there as well. As you may know, the reference HD 4870 comes with 3-phase core and 2-phase memory power design. According to our sources, the new Powercolor HD 4870 PCS will use 4-phase core and 2-phase memory power design.

The only thing that concerns us is that Powercolor has showed non-reference cards before that never made it to retail. Here are more pictures of the Powercolor HD 4870 PCS 1GB version.

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First pictures of non-reference HD 4870

Last modified on 21 July 2008
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