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AMD Radeon HD3850 and HD3870 - AMD's salvation?

Cooling solutions examined

Written by Firefox and filed under Reviews > GPUs & Graphic Cards
Published on November 15, 2007, 12:01 pm

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First up, we have the HD3850's cooler with its shroud removed:

It is a one-piece design meant to cool the GPU, memory and voltage regulators all at once:

The HD3870's dual-slot cooling solution:

A full-copper, skived-fin heatsink is used to cool the GPU whilst the memory and voltage regulators are cooled by copper coloured aluminium heatsinks. 

 

 

The rear of both coolers:

 

Packaged items:

A DVI to HDMI adapter is included in the package. As the RV670 GPU has an integrated HD audio unit, both cards are able to output full HDMI through their DVI ports.

Without further adieu, we shall proceed to the benchmarks.