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Powered by HD 5830 from the PowerColor workshop

Powered by HD 5830 from the PowerColor workshop

Apparently the cooling also changed, but the clocks weren’t hurt.

PowerColor has slightly redesigned its not-so-popular HD 5830 graphics card. Proclaimed as a direct opponent of the GeForce GTX 460, the model has become somewhat shorter than its reference-based counterparts, and the three-tube cooling solution used on the previous PowerColor card has also been redesigned; now only two heat pipes help dissipate heat. The graphics processor in the PowerColor HD 5830 1GB GDDR5 V2 has a graphics processor at 800 MHz, 256-bit wide memory at 4000 MHz and Stream Processors at 1120 - a novelty that follows benchmarks.

Powered by HD 5830 from the PowerColor workshop

The product, which will be available from September, will of course support CrossFireX, with one of the DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs on the back.

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