Powercolor releases custom cooled 4770

doveman · Post by **doveman** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 5:55 am

Just saw this and though it might be of interest.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/powercolor- ... l?doc=7417

thejamppa · Post by **thejamppa** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 6:42 am

Nice but in three months I haven't seen any real HD 4770 in stores, shelves. Just Comming or pre-order... I'd just be happy even to see HD 4770...

As currently, you're more like to find Jimmy Hoffa than HD 4770 on shelves of stores in most part of the world.

doveman · Post by **doveman** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:28 am

There's a few UK online companies with stock, but the price has recently gone up from about Â£76 to Â£90!

DAve_M · Post by **DAve_M** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 2:46 am

doveman wrote:There's a few UK online companies with stock, but the price has recently gone up from about Â£76 to Â£90!

Scan is only charging Â£78 but not in stock at the mo

http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebP ... ce=froogle

Entropy · Post by **Entropy** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:43 am

A reason why it is hard to find on shelves is that people actually buy them.
They are the current performance/power champions, in short supply, and at a reasonable cost. Small wonder they don't accumulate on dealers shelves.
I've had my sample since they were announced and could be ordered and I'm very happy with it.

doveman · Post by **doveman** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:31 am

DAve_M wrote: Scan is only charging Â£78 but not in stock at the mo

Yeah, I've seen a few places without stock quoting around that price, whilst those places that actually have stock are charging around Â£90. So I guess if you don't mind not knowing when you might get it, you can pay the lower price!

doveman · Post by **doveman** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:39 am

Entropy wrote:A reason why it is hard to find on shelves is that people actually buy them.
They are the current performance/power champions, in short supply, and at a reasonable cost. Small wonder they don't accumulate on dealers shelves.
I've had my sample since they were announced and could be ordered and I'm very happy with it.

I really should just buy one but with the next gen cards due out in a couple of months, which will nicely coincide with my clearing my credit card debts, I'm holding off.

It might turn out that the new cards are too expensive (for me), too noisy (and not easy to cool quietly) and not that exciting, but the 4770 will still be around if that's the case and might even drop in price a bit.

K.Murx · Post by **K.Murx** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:08 pm

The Cooler ist the OEM version of the Accelero L2 Pro. A review of a 4730 with this cooler can be found here.
The results were pretty decent, but worse than the stock cooling on a 4770 (4730 draws about twice the power though).

thejamppa wrote:As currently, you're more like to find Jimmy Hoffa than HD 4770 on shelves of stores in most part of the world.

*scratches head*
I've had a 4770 for almost 2 months now...

thejamppa · Post by **thejamppa** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:22 pm

K.Murx wrote:
thejamppa wrote:As currently, you're more like to find Jimmy Hoffa than HD 4770 on shelves of stores in most part of the world.
*scratches head*
I've had a 4770 for almost 2 months now...

Well here, near northern outbacks... card has been pre-ordered for 4 months. I guess California and States generally are slightly more priorty area rather than outback known as Finland... and rest of small, countries outside Anglo-saxon-sphere...

kater · Post by **kater** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:23 pm

thejamppa - true, true :/
I recently got my 4770 but only becasue a friend of mine's friend runs a PC store and had one last card left. All over Poland tho it's hard to find any 4770's - only 2-3 stores seem to offer them, and at premium prices, and I'm not even sure if the cards really do exist. There were supposed to be shipments by the end of July but the truck/ship must have been lost somewhere. And we're still talking cards with that crappy cooler - yes, it is crappy. The fan is audible in idle in auto mode, so I'm getting AC S1 Rev. 1 soon and will ditch the revolving/revolting contraption.

Yeah, it sucks not to live in US or Japan hardware-wise

Olle P · Post by **Olle P** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 5:16 am

Half a dozen Swedish retailers currently report to have this model in stock. Slightly more expensive than the reference, but will probably function as well.

Cheers
Olle

Post by **CA_Steve** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:47 am

TSMC is still battling poor yields on the process leading to low inventories. Recent word is that the yields have improved, so maybe we'll see more on the shelves in the next month.

K.Murx · Post by **K.Murx** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:23 pm

kater wrote:. And we're still talking cards with that crappy cooler - yes, it is crappy. The fan is audible in idle in auto mode, so I'm getting AC S1 Rev. 1 soon and will ditch the revolving/revolting contraption.

Yeah, it sucks not to live in US or Japan hardware-wise

You might want to consider the "real" Accelero L2 Pro (not that OEM version). It's only $15 and comes with a supposedly very quiet fan and cools a 4770 easily.

And it's available in Europe only which frustrates me^^. So not all is better in the US

60beetle60 · Post by **60beetle60** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:07 pm

I like the look of the new pcb layout, looks like you should be able to fit an unmodified accelero s1 onto it

kater · Post by **kater** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:35 pm

K. Murx
To tell the truth I was considering the L2 Pro, but I already have v good experience with S1 (the first revision) and 8800GT, so I'm confident my setup will allow the 4770 and S1 Rev. 1 to run passively. And the price difference of these 2 coolers is not that big after all.

60beetle60

You mean the Asus Formula? To me it seems they have changed the rear section but the GPU is still too close to the output end of the card. BTW, the new Asus Formula card must certainly be faster than others, since it has such a fast looking cooler...

This one, however, looks like it will need no mods to hold an S1 Rev. 1

On the other hand, it already has the L2 Pro so most ppl will not have to change it to another cooler.

K.Murx · Post by **K.Murx** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:49 pm

kater wrote: On the other hand, it already has the L2 Pro so most ppl will not have to change it to another cooler.

I think the OEM version and the retail version of the L2 Pro are not quite the same. But there's no sure way to tell until SPCR reviews them...

kater · Post by **kater** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:56 pm

What kind of differences can there be? RPM, different fan? I personally don't think it would be beneficial for AC to modify a product in this case - I'd guess it's cheaper to make 100.000 coolers of the same type than to make "stock" 50.000 coolers and another 50.000 with small modifications. L2 Pro is a versatile, capable and cheap cooler already. But it's just my semi-intelligent guess - just like you said, until SPCR or sb in this forum checks it out we may never know...

EDIT - new 4750 by PowerColor on the way
http://techpowerup.com/101499/PowerColo ... rator.html
There's speculation it's for China only. Seems a great card, no aux power needed, and should be as quick as 4770 after some OC. Note the custom PCB, same as above.

K.Murx · Post by **K.Murx** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:46 am

Pictures of the OEM and the "Real" version.
They do look different.

[edit] It does not seem to be only the mounting system, at least to me the fins on the Retail version seem to be quite a bit thicker than on the OEM product. Larger fin surface -> better cooling.

kater · Post by **kater** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:07 am

Quite right - the mounting system seems simplier in the OEM version, but in the end both shouldn't have any compatibility issues.

And here's a review of the card - clicky-me - note non-reference PCB (read: no need to hack S1 Rev. 2 anymore!).

Also, I just* noticed techpowerup now measure the power consumption for the card only, just like Xbit Labs. Coo, I guess, as there's plenty of power data for entire systems and not nearly enough just for components.
* When did they start doing it? Must have not looked carefully enough...

doveman · Post by **doveman** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:22 pm

Damn, looks like it doesn't support component out or at least doesn't come with the necessary adapter. As this is essential for me it looks like I'll have to get the Sapphire 4770 (which does come with the adapter) and modify my S1r2.

kater · Post by **kater** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 12:34 am

Yet another custom 4770, by HIS.

link

Non-reference PCB again, hard to tell if the GPU sits in "proper" position.[/url]