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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. Fanless by mysqlrocks · · Score: 4, Funny

    A Fanless Graphics Card

    Did anybody else read this as a graphics card that nobody likes?

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    Bradley Holt
  2. Um... but by Allen+Zadr · · Score: 4, Insightful
    It seems to depend on a CPU fan. Hardly "silent". Your just eliminating one fan from a multi-fan system. How would it work on a fanless CPU setup?

    Somehow I'm thinking fried silica.

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    Kinetic stupidity has a new brand leader: Allen Zadr.
  3. Not new by mqRakkis · · Score: 5, Informative

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

  4. 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.

  5. This isn't new! by mustafap · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've had a fanless graphics card since 1983. Still got it. Hercules MDA.
    Pah!

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    Open Source Drum Kit, LPLC deve board - mjhdesigns.com
  6. whisper soft! by eck011219 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, between this and the silent power supply yesterday, the only thing that's left is a silent sound card!

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    It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
    1. Re:whisper soft! by HugePedlar · · Score: 5, Funny

      What the fuck would you want a silent sou...

      Oh right. Joke.

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      Argh.
    2. Re:whisper soft! by KiloByte · · Score: 4, Funny

      I got several of them. Would you want to swap one of them for one that produces sound?

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      The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
  7. Re:Overkill by fyrie · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No offense, but you are obviously not in the know of what it takes to run a HTPC. Upscailing DVD to HD with an upscaling such as ffdshow is extremely GPU intensive. I am running a 6600gt and it BARELY makes the cut for 1280 720p. I have read that a 6600 won't do 1080i, but a 6800 will.

  8. 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.