News - Gigabyte straps silencer to HD 6770

[HEXUS]

HD 6770 goes passive.

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[Brewster0101]

I don't understand these passive cards. You could stick a (or 2) thin 90mm fan on this and have a low RPM and it still be silent, yet cool the card down alot compared to having a massive passive heat sink.

[Percy1983]

Thats what I thought, surely they need decent air flow anyway which just moves the noise elsewhere.

[RIX]

Agree with brewster, another problem is the size of the card, look where it ends and the heatsink carries on the front and top. It ends up as long as a high end card but less than half the power.

[J666JDC]

I can see the benefit IF the cooler can fit into a low media case (Antec Fusion for example), but if you need a full size case just to give the cooler enough height (it looks like this card goes about an inch above the top of the card) then I agree with the posts above, just slap some low spinning fans on it.

[krazy_olie]

Hope that's a strong pcb :/