High End Silent Cooling For Graphics Cards

SpinnerBait writes "With all the competition these days in the 3D Accelerator market, Graphics Card OEMs are doing anything they can to differentiate their products in a sea of competitive solutions. Recently board designs are getting even more exotic, with brightly colored PCBs, high end heat sink and fan combinations and even flashing lights for the case modders out there. However, a relatively new trend is Quiet Computing. HotHardware has an article up that showcases two new Radeon 9600 Pro and 9800 Pro cards from Sapphire Tech, that have rather impressive fanless coolers on them that are virtually silent. Great stuff for those of you gaming in the library."

Comments

Umm I dunno ...

[SuperDuG]

Looking ... This thing doesn't look like it would fit well inside a system. I've got a nVidia GeForce 4 4200 Ti with the onboard fan and I really can't even tell when it's on. It's got such a low hum to it. Granted I know a heat sink is completely silent, but since these cards will be going into performance machines having them silent isn't really a benifit it seems. I mean most machines with one of these will have a 400watt+ power supply with some type of athlon/p4 and usually a big case. Hence there will already be somewhere (if they're smart) in the ball park of 4 - 5 fans already going in the machine and a little video card fan really isn't going to make all that much of a difference.

Plus the formfactor makes me wonder exactly where you're supposed to put this damned thing. Might as well get over putting this in anything smaller than an ATX board.