"We got our hands on one of Sapphire's new 4890 Vapor-X cards and as you can see, it comes with a blue PCB and sports a cooler similar to that of its predecessor, the 4870 Vapor-X. The cooler uses a vapor chamber plate that makes direct contact with the GPU, transferring heat to a heatsink that is cooled by a single, large fan. The VRM area of the card is then cooled separately by its own smaller heatsink, as shown in the images below. With the cooler removed, you can see the naked card which uses Qimonda ICs.
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