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    ASUS announces cool and quiet X1600

    Motherboard and graphics card manufacturer ASUS has announced the launch of two new ATI X1600 based graphics cards, one with their latest heatpipe cooling solution.
    http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=3829
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    Although, the move towards silent computing is to be welcomes, the card itself seems rather pointless.

    Accordingly to this:-

    http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/...520-part3.html

    its alot slower than the Gigabyte X800XL which is also passive.

    Why bring out a lower performance card that's passive?

    A passive X1800XL - now that would be interesting......

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    Price point...

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