ASUS Announces the EAH5000 Series with Cutting-Edge Cooling

[HardOCP News]

ASUS today launched the EAH5000 Series, a new range of self-conceived graphics cards boasting an innovative thermal design that enables extreme overclocking. This makes these cards the instant choice of discerning DIY PC buffs and champion overclockers everywhere. For PC-building enthusiasts worried about cooling, ASUS EAH5850 and EAH5830 graphics cards feature DirectCU technology, with specially-flattened copper heat pipes that dissipate heat up to 20%* more efficiently during gameplay and enable up to 35%* quieter operation in idle mode.

 

[piscian18]

Link is deadzz. for me anyway.

 

[zkostik]

Link worked for me... The cooler looks just like the ones in other Radeon cards, I smell marketing bs.

 

[delusional]

No Eyefinity support?

 

[EvilNando]

no 5970

 

[Azhar]

Seems to be a problem with the ASUS site. The news doesn't expand on Firefox 3.6, but it works fine in IE8.

Zkostik, you judged it to be BS just by looking at the shroud?? I'd love to have your x-ray vision.

Here's the standard heatsink and fan

And here's ASUS's new cooler

 

[cyclone3d]

Didn't look at the mouting setup before.. but it sure looks like The Accelero S1 v2 will work on a 5800 series card just fine.... 4-heatpipe goodness as well as the ability to go fanless because of the huge heatsink size.

 

[lathode]

"Reinventing Thermal Technology—Get Enhanced Cooling with DirectCU and CUcore "

They didn't reinvent anything, there's been direct heatpipe coolers before.

One example: http://www.geeks3d.com/20081020/force3d-radeon-hd-4870-direct-touch-heatpipe-graphics-card/

 

[lathode]

Seems to be a problem with the ASUS site. The news doesn't expand on Firefox 3.6, but it works fine in IE8.

Zkostik, you judged it to be BS just by looking at the shroud?? I'd love to have your x-ray vision.

Here's the standard heatsink and fan

And here's ASUS's new cooler

That's the standard heatsink for a 5770 card, not 5850 or 5870.