Powercolor Launches World's First Single Slot Radeon HD 6850
Powercolor Launches World's First Single Slot Radeon HD 6850
Posted 04/22/2011 at 12:59pm
| by Paul Lilly
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Need a videocard but find yourself cramped for space? Unfortunately for you, many of today's mid-range to high-end graphics cards take up two slots, a necessary evil in order to cool today's increasingly power (and power hungry) GPUs. Fortunately for you, most board partners also like to experiment with their own designs, ditching reference blueprints in favor of their own cooling creations. It was this mindset that led Powercolor to launch the first single-slot Radeon HD 6850 videocard.
Powercolor didn't go into a whole lot of detail about its cooler in terms of temp performance, but did say it sports three units of 8mm heatpipes with a full cover cooling plate.
Otherwise, the Powercolor HD 6850 sticks with AMD's reference clockspeeds, so the GPU runs at 775MHz and the memory races along at 1000MHz on a 256-bit bus. The card is powered by a single 6-pin PCI-E plug.
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aferrara50
April 25, 2011 at 5:05pm
too bad amd cards suck at folding or I'd have to pick up 7 of them.
noelkoutlis
April 23, 2011 at 5:19am
AFOX single-slot Radeon HD 6850 sells for about $245 for over a month now
see afox-corp.com/en/products_details.asp?proid=101
KenLV
April 22, 2011 at 5:42pm
Hmmmm…. I’ve been waiting to upgrade my twin (single slot) 4850s and deciding what to do. We’ll have to see cost for 2. But at least I have a good Crossfire option that DOESN’T bogart over half my slots!
TRYER
April 22, 2011 at 3:04pm
Let's hope it does not cost a fortune just because people can now fit it in their machine. Or we can just spend that cash and buy a bigger machine.
preacher1010
April 22, 2011 at 9:08pm
that Amazon link you posted refers to the Dual-Slot model, not the single-slot.
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