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[Ezra Gabriel]

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 currently took over the ATI Radeon HD 5870 as the quick individual-graphics processing unit card in build to purchase. Not one to permit such a blatant challenge to go unrequited, XFX has freed its limited Black Version HD 5870, which claims to utilize only the excellent of the excellent Cypress graphics processing units. The hyperbolic claims do not block there though, with XFX claiming Black Version cards to be its ‘Family Jewels’ - a marketing claim that created us slightly hesitant when it arrived to starting the box.


Fortunately, the box comprised no genitalia but it did house a graphics board, along with a number of additionals such as sticker sheets and an Aliens vs. Predator digital download coupon. Also added was a geeky ‘Do not trouble – I am gaming’ door manage hanger which is perfectly guaranteed to net you few points with your girlfriend/wife/mum. Or perhaps not.


The card itself is construct around a stylish black custom PCB which houses the 40nm graphics processing unit and One gibibyte of GDDRV. The GPU is overclocked from 850MHz to 900MHz, which constitutes a comparatively thin Six% bump,



given that we have look cards with a 100MHz overclock on them. The storage is overclocked through the similar 50MHz, meaning it zips along at 1.25GHz.


To tame the additional heat created through pushing the parts of the card past its default velocities, the Black Version comes corresponded with a double port cooler, which is a custom plan that bizarrely looks to have been patterned to appear similar the stock cooler. It is black and has the familiar red stripe down the center and the red-trimmed vents at the rear. If it was not for the peculiar position of the fan, we had have thought it was only a reference cooler. We familiar that the stock cooler for the 5870 is excellent, but companies commonly utilize a custom cooler to differentiate their cards, not camouflage them.


The fins of the cooler are clustered above V chunky copper heatpipes - one more than the stock cooler – and these heatpipes functions by a copper contact plate. We too found a committed heatsink for the MOSFETs when we got rid of the cooler, and the Dr MOS units themselves are clean and appear robust. The chokes of the 3+1-phase power delivery appearance pretty basic, with their exposed ferrite cores, while there is a bank of 10 capacitors to smooth the power among choke and graphics processing unit.