News - Sapphire launches passive HD 7750 Ultimate graphics card

[HEXUS]

All the goodness of GCN but with zero noise.

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[edvinasm]

And the price is..? If it's below €100 we might have a winner in passive cooling market. Not so much in low profile for HTPC.

[Noli]

They've got a ninja on the box. That's like, so cool, like, because ninjas are awesome and deadly and like, silent, just like this card. That's so cool and brill I can't believe they thought of that. Ninjas.

[DannyM]

Intrigued, it will be nice to see just how good the temps are. A fairly powerful passively cooled card could sit well in a small system.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The card looks an absolute fail. Why does an HD7750 need such a huge cooler?? WTF??

HD4670 Ultimate - 59W TDP



HD5670 Ultimate - 61W TDP



HD6670 Ultimate - 66W TDP



HD7750 Ultimate - 55W TDP





The HD7750 consumes less power than an HD6670:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/H...Cooler/24.html

The HD7750 is very close to a GT430 in power consumption and without the fan will probably consume a similar amount of power.

Passive GT430 cards





So basically,instead of a cooler which is longer and taller than the PCB,the HD7750 could have a single or dual slot cooler which is the same area as the PCB.

[wasabi]

I suspect the huge heatsink is for extreme bods like yours truly who also run passive PSU, passive CPU heatsink and (normally) no case fans. My current 86w 5750 with an accelero S1 environment can get unstable if I do a lot of gaming (hour plus of Skyrim) unless I manually switch the 120mm rear fan on just a smidgen (temporarily).

I'd expect that heatsink to be able to cope with an 80 watt higher end part though, so the pairing seems a bit odd - IMO they should stick it on a 7770

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Here is an unboxing video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shKaQGaCw98

The cooler looks huge. What a fail.

[Luckygiant]

Impressive cooler, way overkill lol.

Performance might be worth it when the price drops in future, but currently way better options out there.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Here is a review:

http://www.kitguru.net/components/gr...dition-review/