Published: Monday 4th August, 2008 | Author: Parm Mann
Products: Sapphire RADEON HD 4850
Companies: HiS Graphics (All HiS Graphics content)
External reviews: Sapphire RADEON HD 4850
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email to a friendCustom-cooled AMD Radeon HD 4850 graphics cards are beginning to appear from the usual suspects, and the latest is the HIS HD 4850 IceQ 4.
The card, pictured below, features the forth-generation of IceQ cooling technology. HIS claims that the newly-designed double-slot fans and larger heatsink surface provide a 20 per cent increase in cooling performance.
Unfortunately, that vastly-improved cooling performance isn't enough for HIS to give the card a bump in speed. It'll feature a standard core speed of 625MHz and its 512MB of GDDR4 will feature an effective clock of 1,968MHz.
Unlike Sapphire's TOXIC Radeon HD 4850, the HIS IceQ 4 uses a dual-slot design to dissipate heat from the GPU and pump it out of your chassis.
There's no word on pricing or availability just yet, but it shouldn't be too far away. It'll no doubt cost more than your average Radeon HD 4850, but pushing hot air out of your PC can only be a good thing.
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I'm waiting for a good propriety cooler system before upgrading to a HD4850, or at least until they fix the bios on the stock models to make it run cooler! :confused:Quote
yeah, i think that's wrong and it will be 3...
wonder how this cooler compares to my akasa vortexx
H iMadduckUK , I do truly believe that our product the Vortex NEO is currently the best of breed set new level of the bar of performance.
On the 48xx series I would endrose the use of our little coolers (http://www.akasa.co.uk/akasa_english/spec_page/accessories/spec_ak_vmc_01.htm)
for the VRM & magnetics & use the thermal tape adhesive .
http://www.akasa.co.uk/akasa_english/spec_page/thermal/spec_ak_tt12_80.htm:rockon2:Quote
H iMadduckUK , I do truly believe that our product the Vortex NEO is currently the best of breed set new level of the bar of performance.
On the 48xx series I would endrose the use of our little coolers (http://www.akasa.co.uk/akasa_english/spec_page/accessories/spec_ak_vmc_01.htm)
for the VRM & magnetics & use the thermal tape adhesive .
http://www.akasa.co.uk/akasa_english/spec_page/thermal/spec_ak_tt12_80.htm:rockon2:
Also just to further add - we had been submitting our design to HIS late last year and this year and
this is why they are similar - but I will let you make your own conclusions :censored:Quote
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