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A Fanless Graphics Card from ASUS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-i-need-fans-to-feel-complete dept.

mikemuch writes "ASUS has come out with the Extreme N6600GT Silencer/HTD, a GeForce 6600GT without any cooling fan. It's sort of odd looking, with heat sinks that fold on a hinge. Great for home theater since it's silent. Loyd Case of ExtremeTech has put it through a rigorous bunch of benchmarks."

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  1. Not new by mqRakkis · · Score: 5, Informative

    Gigabyte has been selling a fanless 6600GT for a while now, the GV-NX66T256D.

  2. The 6600 silencer works great. by leoxx · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just built an AMD X2 3800 system with the 6600 (non-GT) Silencer for my wife, who is not a video game player, and it is cool, quiet, cheap and plenty fast for what she needs. Combined with the Antec Sonata II case it makes for probably the nicest Linux system I have ever put together.

  3. Gigabyte has a similar model by Stack_13 · · Score: 4, Informative
    Gigabyte has a similar model: a heatpipe-cooled Gigabyte Geforce 6600GT with a easy-to-remember name of Gigabyte GV-NX66T128VP. Tom's Hardware has a review of the card. AGP version is also available with a similarly easy model name of GV-N66T128VP.

    I have a PCI Express version of the card in my rig, and it is nice. Gets too hot to touch after running GPU-intensive applications, but those NV chips should be designed to run hot (and they have a thermal protection which throttles down the GPU if it gets overheated).

    Nice to see other manufacturers to notice that people like to have their computers silent.