What you have with the ASUS EAH4770 Formula is another rendition of the first 40nm video card to the market. On the outside the Formula 4770 at first glance looks like a standard HD 4770 with a special heatsink but when you look a little deeper there is more to be seen. This card is smaller than all of the behemoth video cards on the market at just over eight inches in length. The depth of the heatsink makes the Formula series 4770 a dual slot cooling solution. Along the top edge of the card there is a brace to provide additional rigidity to the PCB to prevent any droop of the PCB like I have seen on some HD4850s over time. That fix is always a welcome addition. When building its latest video cards, ASUS has made some improvements that should help with the reliability as well as reducing operating temperatures of the on board components while running more efficiently. In today's economy not everyone has the financial ability to upgrade at any time and are looking for their hardware to last for a greater length of time. ASUS call these the "Ultimate Armaments." What you get are lower RDS(on) MOSFETs, solid capacitors, shielded video outputs and covered chokes. As you can see in the slide below each has a significant impact. The fan used on the Formula 4770 features a double seal that helps keep dust out of the motor increasing its life span by a large margin. This, of course, will take some testing time but with the dust that seems to accumulate in my computers this should be something easy to do. Having the fan fail on even a mid range performance card can have a devastating effect on the GPU and memory.
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