The ATI Radeon HD 4890 isn't something innovative; but, ASUS has been one of the minority companies to break out of the form with a little customized Radeon HD 4890 PCB with custom heatsink. Too regularly companies get misplaced in the monotony of the hardware industry product cycles, but ASUS always carry on surprising me with their improvement. That might be giving them a bit too much credit but it seems that many companies are comfortable with buying the reference design and slapping their label on the heatsink. There is normally a compulsory period during which these suggestion samples are compulsory to be sold, but too often companies keep selling the similar stuff months later.

As well the fancy heatsink, ASUS has integrated an 8-pin with 6-pin PCIe power connector in its place of the average dual 6-pin and a big capacitor known as a 'Super ML Cap' to facilitate adds stability input voltages to the cards. ASUS is the first in the video card industry to make use of these polymer-based capacitors, so it will be attractive to see if more companies follow in the months to come. Super ML Caps, a shorter term for Multilayer Polymer Capacitors, suggest numerous advantages over ceramic capacitors. Super ML Caps have the lowest with most stable ESR among all kinds of caps, not to talk about they continue stable under all voltage conditions plus run cooler! ASUS declares that the Super ML Cap will help with the card's overclocking potential by up to 300%, and we'll put this claim to the test after our regular testing process.

For those involved in putting one of these fine pieces of work into their PCs, ASUS advises at least a 550 Watt SMPS with at least 40 Amps obtainable on the +12v rail.