Powercolor slaps 2GB DDR3 on HD 4850

**abbY** · 10-07-08, 04:10 PM

512MB DDR3 is pretty enough to feed HD 4850, but Powercolor have gone xtreme, directly push their non reference HD 4850 2GB. Ramdisk on VGA card, anyone?

Actually Powercolor still uses AMD’s reference PCB, (you can see AMD name after the FCC mark), but based on the PCB they make lots of changes. It uses ZeroTherm full cooper GPU cooler with CVVT technology(Continue Variable Velocity Timing, just another Korean innovation), changed DRAM module to high capacity chips (detail still known). The card runs slightly higher than reference one, clocks at 665/2000MHz(core/memory)

The announce date and the price still unkown.

Nice Cooler Though, IMO 1GB is perfect for the HD4850, 512 is a tad less at higher res.

Link->Expreview.com - Extra Hardware News Report!

**stalker** · 10-07-08, 04:11 PM

2gig of RAM or not.. that Cooler sure as hell looks awesome!

**Shade** · 10-07-08, 04:15 PM

2GB is definitely overkill. 1 GB would be perfect and would've costed less.

**_pappu_** · 10-07-08, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by sTALKEr

2gig of RAM or not.. that Cooler sure as hell looks awesome!

thats just a normal cooler doode

you get it on the 8800gt as well from gigabyte i think

**Gannu** · 10-07-08, 04:30 PM

DejaVu!! Bottle has the HD3870 with the similar cooler onboard!!

http://www.techenclave.com/rig-galle...mage-3835.html

I was expecting the Zerotherm cooler onboard sooner or later but 2GB DDR3??

And whats with this CVVT??

Thats supposedly Continuous variable valve timing; used in IC Engines like in the Getz, Elantra and the Sonata!!

Continuous variable valve timing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

@pappu: U're talking abt the Zalman fan onboard the GB 8800GT; This one:

**SunnyBoi** · 10-07-08, 04:33 PM

continuously varying velocity man

rev needle ( rpm readings

) keeps dancing like rakhi sawant

2GB is overkill :S guess powercolor wants to make cards which no one will ever buy

**Gannu** · 10-07-08, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by SunnyBoi

continuously varying velocity

I'm yet to find that expansion for the acronym though;

**SunnyBoi** · 10-07-08, 04:39 PM

huh :S look @ first post

**Gannu** · 10-07-08, 04:40 PM

^^Yeah thats what they claim but never come across that before; Lol;

**_pappu_** · 10-07-08, 05:19 PM

[quote name='gannu']DejaVu!! Bottle has the HD3870 with the similar cooler onboard!!

http://www.techenclave.com/rig-galle...mage-3835.html

I was expecting the Zerotherm cooler onboard sooner or later but 2GB DDR3??

And whats with this CVVT??

Thats supposedly Continuous variable valve timing; used in IC Engines like in the Getz, Elantra and the Sonata!!

Continuous variable valve timing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

are you sure that getz has variable valve timing???

coz its pretty expensive to implement

toyota calls it vvti and honda calls it v-tec (the honda one is legendary

)

i guess what they mean by that is changing clocks more intelligently than normal or sumthing like that because it is known that these cards have very high idle power comsumption

**abbY** · 10-07-08, 05:21 PM

Or maybe the Fans automatically reduces it rpm according to CPU usage / temperature.

**Gannu** · 10-07-08, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by _pappu_

are you sure that getz has variable valve timing???

coz its pretty expensive to implement

Yes!! The newer 1.4L Petrol not launched in India

] has CVVT;

Hyundai Getz Gets New Looks And Engines

**Sudarshan_SMD** · 10-07-08, 07:13 PM

2GB DDR3 :S it will be more than underutilised .

i feel that cooler is not so great but thumbs up:hap2: for all copper heat sink

CVVT ......means it may tilising every WATT of POWER