Wednesday, February 9, 2011

MSI R6870 Hawk, only for real overclockers

MSI has unveiled a new video card belonging to the Hawk series. This series has become very popular among fans of overclocking because it integrates all the "extreme features" found on these customized versions of VGA top of the range products more affordable for the mainstream segment and performance.

The board is based on the core Barts XT Radeon HD 6870, but this is the only similarity to the reference model AMD. The PCB is novel and offers a power circuitry to 8 +2 phase surrounded by the electrical components of "military class" that best support the operation of the above is that this product may be exposed.


The cooling system is the Twin Frozr III consists of a generous aluminum radiator topped by two fans "MSI Propeller Blade 80mm and connected to the bases with 5 heatpipes (two of which are SuperPipes 8mm in diameter). In addition to the inevitable "V-Check points" (points of welding useful to measure in direct values vGPU (GPU voltage) and vDDR (memory voltage) via digital multimeter, the PCB is a switch to disable ' OCP (over current protection).

The frequencies of MSI are set by default to 930MHz for the GPU and 4200MHz for the memories video. This is only a slight overclocking on the GPU but not be misled, because this card is able to easily switch 1 GHz clock speed and in the hands of experienced users can outperform the HD 6950/6970 without changing cooling.

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