News - GIGABYTE's passive Radeon HD 4850 revealed

[HEXUS]

GIGABYTE's Taiwan product page reveals a passive Radeon HD 4850 with its proprietary Multi-Core Cooling technology.

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[Funkstar]

That does look very neat.

I like the industrial look of this.

[Biscuit]

The fins sticking out the back might get in the way of the DVI adaptors/cables a bit but yeah it looks good.

[Kumagoro]

I am waiting for one to come out with a similar passive heat sink like the MSI 8600gt in the link.
I prefer the heat sink on the back as a fan sits snugly in-between that and my scythe ninja.

The fan only spins up when I am working the computer hard say in a game so it cools the card
and the cpu at the same time. When i am not then they are both silent.


http://66.163.168.225/babelfish/tran...3D107&.intl=uk

[llololloy]

Finally, a decent spec card with passive cooling that will actually fit in a htpc case like the fusion.
Most passive cards have a honking great heatpipe passing over the top of the card.
Hope prices and availability are ok.

[baius]

That does look very neat.

I like the industrial look of this.

Yeah, better than this.

I've been considering watercooling recently, to try and silence loud components. This could work, though. SSD should also help, (when it becomes affordable).

(Edit: My link already quoted in Hexus' article. Sorry.)

[format]

Wonder if you could strap a 92mm fan onto this....

[baius]

Wonder if you could strap a 92mm fan onto this....

That's funny - it was meant to be a joke, right?

[format]

That's funny - it was meant to be a joke, right?

Not really, what I meant was stick a very low RPM fan on - most fans that come with stock cooling solutions run very high/noisy RPMs and are usually 80mm.
Obv passive designs are aimed at media/SFF/silence enthusuiasts, I was more musing out loud, cause I'm looking for a new card that runs as quiet as possible sometime soon

[Biscuit]

Surely silent is better than any fan if your trying to get it as quiet as possible. The thing can run completely fanless perfectly fine so why bother strapping a fan onto it?

[HSK]

Hmm looks good, Gigabyte passive cards are usually quite nice and perform well, but benefited that you have some decent or at least constant air flow through the case.

[format]

Surely silent is better than any fan if your trying to get it as quiet as possible. The thing can run completely fanless perfectly fine so why bother strapping a fan onto it?

Possibly for OC'ing