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Archive for January 29th, 2008

Yesterday, AMD has officially presented its new family of video cards top of the range. Talk models ATI Radeon HD 3870×2, solutions that easily as the name suggests are the combination of two of the series GPU Radeon HD 3870 mounted on the same PCB.

Such a solution requires a complex cooling system; two heat sinks are mounted on each of the GPU, with a plastic cover that covers the card for its entire length and strength to the movement of air blown by a fan turbine. This approach leads to good overall effectiveness, but for the most fans there right now the prime alternatives.

We speak of the kit to liquid CoolIT Systems, the Canadian company specializes in cooling solutions for processors and video cards, is developing solutions specifically for the ATI Radeon HD 3870×2. As can be seen clearly from the cooling system was designed to occupy only one slot on the motherboard, against the 2 required by the traditional system of cooling air chosen by AMD.

CoolIT Systems has announced that it has obtained, with the same levels of temperature, clock frequencies of 900 MHz for both GPU and 1000 MHz (2000 MHz effective) for 1024 Mbytes of video memory, respectively, against the values equal to 825 MHz and 900 MHz (1800 MHz effective) for the reference design developed by AMD.