Slashdot Mirror
GeForce 7950 GT Launches With Passive Cooling
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.'"
Great way to replace an XBox360 or PS3, put a computer with one of these in your living room and use it as a console/htpc type thing. But, does it run linux*? *have good drivers?
All your base are belong to Wii.
hard boiling eggs directly in the shell has been the preffered method in our office.(works on passive and fan cooled cpus) We did the math, and we save about $4.50 a year in power savings over microwaved hardboiled eggs.
Sounds good to me... I'm pretty impressed by its performance and features overall.
It has a heck of a heat sink on it, and no whirring fans to add to the rest of the noise from your case. Which is just fine by me.
_________
http://hatchedeggs.blogspot.com/
Justin - Don't be afraid of my blog, it won't bite.
The thing that I like about passively cooled system components is that cooling duties can be taken care of by larger fans than could ever be put onto a component (in this case, a video card). Those larger fans can move more air per minute at a lower RPM and therefore at a lower noise level. Even when the noise level isn't that much lower, it's also at a lower frequency due to the RPM difference, and those lower frequencies are often more easily ignored.