Need a videocard but find yourself cramped for space? Unfortunately for you, many of today's mid-range to high-end graphics cards take up two slots, a necessary evil in order to cool today's increasingly power (and power hungry) GPUs. Fortunately for you, most board partners also like to experiment with their own designs, ditching reference blueprints in favor of their own cooling creations. It was this mindset that led Powercolor to launch the first single-slot Radeon HD 6850 videocard.Powercolor didn't go into a whole lot of detail about its cooler in terms of temp performance, but did say it sports three units of 8mm heatpipes with a full cover cooling plate.
Otherwise, the Powercolor HD 6850 sticks with AMD's reference clockspeeds, so the GPU runs at 775MHz and the memory races along at 1000MHz on a 256-bit bus. The card is powered by a single 6-pin PCI-E plug.
