Powercolor releases a passive cooled 7850. The HD 7850 SC3

[Cobalt]

So, Powercolor just announced a new 7850, the difference is that is passively cooled and has a really huge heatsink, that's it, no fans or moving parts, just a really big aluminum fin array conected to six  heat pipes which cool the 75W card.

 

Specs are as follows:

The graphics card features 1 GB of GDDR5 memory, which runs over a 256-bit memory interface at 4.8 GHz, has a core clock speed of 850 MHz, and features DirectX 11.1 compatibility as well as Eyefinity.

 

The cooler seems to be a triple slot one, which seems pretty good for such a powerful card, though if someone here buys it I would like to know the heat numbers.

 

There is no current word on price or availability.

 

 

Source: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/powercolor-hd-7850-sc3-passive,22505.html

 

[vkadurin]

I will remain sceptic until someone post temp results.

[Godlygamer23]

Those heatpipes look good.

[Lukiose]

It's a dual slot card from the picture

[XiaoPigs]

Great news for all the silence freaks!

[GM_Peka]

Looks nice, to bad it's only got 1GB of GDDR5

[GM_Peka]

It's a dual slot card from the picture

Yeah, but the heat sink would still take up more than two slots worth of space so it could be called triple slot.

[CoffeeBlack]

That's pretty beast looking

[That Norwegian Guy]

Yeah, but the heat sink would still take up more than two slots worth of space so it could be called triple slot.

Just 1 or 2 millimetres, no case has that low clearance. Not even HTPC cases.

My thoughts on this card: PCB colour = dealbreaker. Nothing says cheap like a red PCB. Maybe it's because all the crappy cards from the 90's had red PCBs.

[Zims]

Nice option for a silent build.

Add the passive CPU cooler and build a silent PC

[Levent]

they can even make passive cooled 7870 the only downside would be losing overclocking opportunities 

[911^NEmeSis]

7850 for a decent gaming HTPC. Good stuff.

[2chriswy]

7850 for a decent gaming HTPC. Good stuff.

 

thats what i was thinking 

[Nicktrance]

I think that's dual slot :). TBH I don't look at these as passively cooled, I mean you still should be using a fan to cool it indirectly, but you can use a much more quiet fan with good results thanks to the larger heatsink.

[Matsy]

Can't imagine the temperatures would be that acceptable on these.

Maybe nice for people who don't exactly play any sort of demanding game, like valve games or minecraft etc, but then again why would these kind of people need such a powerful GPU....

[tabuburn]

Didn't the last card PowerColor tried to do this with pretty much burn itself?

[virusal19]

Ewwww.... Red PCB, no thanks.

[RainbowTylernol]

Coool.... Red PCB, yes please.

[ShiverMePenguins]

Didn't the last card PowerColor tried to do this with pretty much burn itself?

don't think so. then again there will always be idiots that don't have fans inside a computer so who knows.

[tabuburn]

don't think so. then again there will always be idiots that don't have fans inside a computer so who knows.

Found out that it was the 6850 that was also passively cooled. Hexus did a review on this 7850. Looks like there needs to be good airflow inside the case to keep the temps down. An intake fan that blows directly to the card is preferrable.

[ShiverMePenguins]

Found out that it was the 6850 that was also passively cooled. Hexus did a review on this 7850. Looks like there needs to be good airflow inside the case to keep the temps down. An intake fan that blows directly to the card is preferrable.

don't most cases have side fans? i like the idea of passive cooling, especially since some case fans are just as good if not better than those 80mm's that come with cards most of the time.

 

 

i'm just waiting for a assymetrical angled blower styled card. can anyone say silence and exhausting air from your case?

[ShiverMePenguins]

just checked. the gf's current case has 2 120mm's right where the first three pcie x16 slots are. so she could xfire these and still get some good cooling. but that case has great airflow (8 fans total possible) so that probably isn't a rule of thumb for most.

[heineygoat]

Wow that's impressive. Kind of inspired me to make a SFF silent pc. I wish I had the money to make all my builds.

[mgsstar]

This card looks sort of cheap imo because it looks like they just slapped on a passive cooler on it and created a new series of cards.

[tabuburn]

don't most cases have side fans? i like the idea of passive cooling, especially since some case fans are just as good if not better than those 80mm's that come with cards most of the time.

 

 

i'm just waiting for a assymetrical angled blower styled card. can anyone say silence and exhausting air from your case?

Indeed most do. For SFF's or silence-optimized cases though, it might need direct flow from a fan.