ASUS uses new cooler on 1 GB HD4870 card

With the coming of the Radeon HD4890 graphics card, the older HD4870 appears to have been pushed aside. This card however is still important to AMD: it's positioned in a price range that sells numerous cards. About a year after its first introduction, ASUS tries to tweak the HD4870 a bit more, introducing a new version of the card altogether. The new model will be branded EAH4870/HTDI/1GD5 and is -as the name suggests- equipped with 1 GB of GDDR5 memory.

The card features a red PCB and will have its core cooled by an aluminum heatsink that ASUS calls the Glaciator+. According to the company, this alternative cooler would allow for temperatures of up to 12% lower than the dualslot reference cooling with heatpipes. Additional cooling has also been placed on the card's power design, ensuring stability at higher clock frequencies as well. ASUS' new card uses the reference AMD specifications: the GPU is clocked at 750 MHz and the GDDR5 memory at 3600 MHz.

ASUS' new HD4870 1 GB has an additional bracket on the side of the PCB to make sure the card won't bend. Two DVI connectors allow the GPU work with dual monitor setups as well.

ASUS HD4870 with 1 GB GDDR5 and Glaciator+ cooling

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