Point of View announced two TGT edition GTS 450 cards, the Charged and Ultra Charged come with different level of factory pre-OC. The POV/TGT GeForce GTS 450 Charged version operates at 835/1670/3800MHz while the Ultra Charged version has it’s clocks set to 891/1782/4008MHz (GPU/Shader/Memory), both offering a nice boost over the reference clocks of 783/1566/3608MHz.
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Yet another Zotac designed GTX460 showed up on the radar, this time at Expreview. The card has very impressive VRM design with 8+2+2 power phase, which are kept under control by 4 UPi manufactured uP6218 chips allowing voltage adjustments by I2C. The PCB isn’t the traditional rectangle form, it was expanded vertically since the don’t wanted to make the card longer. The video memory and the power circuitry has it separate heatsink in one piece of aluminum, while the GPU is kept cool by an enormous heatpipe cooler which has the dimensions of 185×131x63mm, the heat dissipating area of 3200cm2 in form of 54 fins, and weighs a healthy 465 grams. The airflow is ensured by a 12cm PWM controlled fan ranging from 1200 to 1600 rpm, doing it’s duty quietly or so does Expreview say. Nice little package they’ve put together, OC experts get your LN2.
MSI launched their Twin Frozr edition of the GTX480, and claim that the Twin Frozr II thermal design with 5 heatpipes, a quite large dissipation area, and airflow provided by two PWM controlled 8 cm fans keep the card 14°C cooler and 4dB quieter compared to the reference design. The card also uses MSI’s own PCB design with “military” class components. Sadly clocks remain at reference levels, but there is room for improvement with the quality components, the extra cooling capacity and MSI’s own Afterburner overclocking utility.
Thermalright announced a new GPU cooler dubbed Shaman, comes with a shiny mirror finish copper base from where 8x6mm heatpipes transfer the heat to a 140x130mm dissipation area, which can be cooled by both 12 and 14cm fans of your choice in case you don’t fancy the bundled 21dB 14cm Thermalright TY-140 PWM fan.
It can be mounted on most performance-mainstream and high-end graphics card available today, namely the GeForce GTX400 Series (460/465/470/480), the Radeon HD5700 Series, HD5800 Series and the upcoming HD6700 and HD6800 Series cards also.
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