Since many AMD partners began to supply video cards radeon HD 4850 with alternative designs, we tried to find the most interesting copies.
It is known that powerColor company in its series PCS will propose a video card with the alternative cooling systems, and increase the default card frequencies . As reports assocaite powerColor company also intends to present the radeon HD 4870 version with 1 Gb GDDR5 memory and alternative cooler. The latter will uses four thermal tubes, and it can reduce the video chip temperature by 20 degree Celsiuss in comparison with standard solution. The minimum overclock with such cooler will be 800 MHz. Since the standard radeon HD 4870 cooling system is poor, the alternative versions radeon HD 4870 will for sure enjoy special popularity among overclockers .


Asspcaite also published the photograph of alternative version radeon HD 4850 from MSI. This Video card has similar cooler with four thermal tubes, and here the default frequencies remained on the regular values (625/1986 MHz). The GDDR 3 memory capacity is equal to 512 mb. In Japanese stores already appeared the overclocked version radeon HD 4870 from MSI with 512 mb GDDR5 memory . This Video card has a standard design, but its frequencies are increased to 780/4000 MHz. It is completely possible that later MSI will release the radeon HD 4870 version with alternative cooler.