Sapphire has one more HD 3870 up its sleeve

[JPB]

Looks like a 7900GTX cooler to me.



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Sapphire is very busy and it looks like they will have a lot to show on the upcoming Cebit show, since the new dual slot HD 3870 has just been pictured. This card uses a dual slot cooling solution with three heatpipes and a large center positioned fan.

This new and rather massive cooler should be able to keep the temperatures on the low side, which means that Sapphire is maybe going for the highest factory overclock so far, and the card should even have room for additional user overclocking.

The card's core and memory clocks are still unknown, but they are going to be revealed soon since the picture of the card is already out. You should also expect a higher price tag for this card since good dual slot cooling and factory OC usually has its price.

 

[thilanliyan]

Looks like the old 7800GTX cooler. They should be able to bump up clocks pretty nicely.

 

[bryanW1995]

900/2600 would be nice... many 3870 owners can get 860/2550+ already, so a higher oc with that massive cooler should be possible. They will probably stick to 850/2500 though...

 

[BigMoosey74]

HIS has one at 850 so hopefully Sapphire will go beyond by a few marks.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814161217

 

[kmmatney]

Is that Angelina Jolie on the fan cover?

 

[Piuc2020]

I think the limitation is voltage not temperatures so unless Sapphire adds a way to modify voltage at a driver-level (a la Gigabyte's GamerHUD) then I doubt it will have much overclocking potential.

 

[dennilfloss]

Pure sex. :thumbsup:

 

[Sylvanas]

Originally posted by: kmmatney
Is that Angelina Jolie on the fan cover?

It probably comes with the latest Tomb Raider game.

 

[taltamir]

that IS pure sex... impressive enough to make me consider buying it over an nvidia card... (Since for some reason all cards from both nvidia and AMD the past year or so had heat problems... did I say its sexy already)