News - ASUS rips fan off Radeon HD 6770 1GB card

[HEXUS]

Goes for the silent treatment with mainstream graphics card

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[scaryjim]

"it seems a little strange that ASUS would go to this effort on an older GPU"

Not really: this is the lowest-level card that can be comfortably used for 1080p gaming, it has the improved video processing required for HTPC usage, and if you can slap a big passive cooler on it it becomes a good option for a living-room gaming PC once hooked up to a 24" or 27" 1080p monitor! It'd fit fine in pretty much any non-slim mATX case (like my Antec Aria, for exanmple) and provides plenty of gaming oomph without the noisy whiny fans to annoy you during quiet dramatic moments in your Blurays. Sure, it won't have mainstream appeal, but it fits quite a nice niche...

[3dcandy]

agreed it's a shoe-in for a gaming/htpc combo box under a decent tv!