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" We have seen in the past that Sapphire can release a single-slot Vapor-X heatsink with some great results so it boggles the mind why they decided to go with a totally oversized heatsink for this relatively cool-running card. It just seems like needless overkill to us. Hopefully, future revisions will look at giving us a slimmed down heatsink design. "

The reason why they released a dual-slot card is that, unlike the HD 4000 series, these ones have dual-slot video output for the DVIs, HDMI and DP, stuf that couldn't fit on a single-slot bracket :). Even if they might've built a single-slot card, the output braket had to be replaced, but I doubt it could handle all those outputs. Beeing forced to build a dual-slot card, there was no reason to make a slim cooler since the space couldn't be used anyways.

Romanian. I'm sorry if my english may be bad :(
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