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GeForce 7950 GT Launches With Passive Cooling

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hot-to-cold dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NVIDIA's GeForce 7950 GT comes with great performance at an attractive $299/£225 launch price. Incredibly, XFX's pre-overclocked card comes with a passive cooling solution. From the article: 'There is no doubting that NVIDIA's GeForce 7950 GT is faster and cheaper than the GeForce 7900 GT that launched at the same price point earlier in the year. There is a lot to like about the product, and there is even more to like about XFX's implementation. It's generally a match for ATI's Radeon X1900XT 512MB in popular games.'"

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  1. Cooling can always be made active these days. by Sadko · · Score: 3, Informative

    Cooling can always be made active these days. Just buy something like Zallman Cooler (http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N8 2E16835118117). Installation (which replaces the original cooling) is 10 minutes, and the cards these days are made with standard mounting, and it's usually gets your card down 10-15 degrees. The only drawback is that it makes 1-slot card to be 2-slot wide. Cheers,

  2. Re:Oh good! by YA_Python_dev · · Score: 5, Informative

    You got modded funny, but the thing is really hot: without an extra fan in the case, the article mentions "temperatures approaching 110 degrees Celcius (sic)" (for people not familiar with degrees Celsius, 100 degrees is the boiling point of water at normal atmospheric pressure).

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  3. Re:I like the two DVI ports... by karnal · · Score: 3, Informative

    uh..huh.

    Taken from Newegg:

    Package Contents: 2 x DVI to VGA Adapter

    I think they thought of you when they put teh card in teh boxxorz!

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