Yeston Readies Conch-Like Cooler for Game Master R6950 Graphics Card

Yeston is getting ready to debut a new conch-like cooler design that the company says it delivers improved thermal and acoustic performance and that will be used for the first time in the Game Master R6950 graphics card.

The cooler features quite a colorful design and its most distinctive feature is the 110mm turbine fan housed inside a conch-like shroud which is said to optimize the airflow inside the card.

Compared to the regular 80mm blower used by AMD, Yeston's fan features quite a few modifications, including a larger turbine engine and a redesigned axis, and its rotation speed has been set at 1800RPM.

On the other end of the cooling solution stands a 65mm2 copper base plate which features five heat pipes to draw the heat away from the GPU and into an aluminum heatsink.

According to Yeston, all these changes allowed the company to substantially reduce the noise and temperatures of the card and its internal tests have revealed that the maximum temperature reached by the Game Master R6950 while running Furmark never exceeds 72 degrees Celsius.

As its name implies, the Game Master R6950 is based on the AMD Radeon HD 6950 design and the graphics card will most probably come factory overclocked.

The Radeon HD 6950 is based on the Cayman Pro core which features 1408 stream processors, 88 texture units, 32 ROP units as well as a 256-bit memory interface.

This can be linked to 1GB or 2GB of video buffer and the card's regular clock speeds are set at 800MHz for the core and 1.25GHz (5.0GHz effective) for the GDDR5 memory.

Yeston didn't reveal when the Game Master R6950 becomes available or if the company plans to use this cooler in any other of its designs. (via Expreview)