High End Silent Cooling For Graphics Cards

SpinnerBait writes "With all the competition these days in the 3D Accelerator market, Graphics Card OEMs are doing anything they can to differentiate their products in a sea of competitive solutions. Recently board designs are getting even more exotic, with brightly colored PCBs, high end heat sink and fan combinations and even flashing lights for the case modders out there. However, a relatively new trend is Quiet Computing. HotHardware has an article up that showcases two new Radeon 9600 Pro and 9800 Pro cards from Sapphire Tech, that have rather impressive fanless coolers on them that are virtually silent. Great stuff for those of you gaming in the library."

This is news?

[worst_name_ever]

I could already have told you that pipe technology greatly enhances enjoyment of the pretty colors and swirly lights so common in today's high-end games.

brightly colored PCBs?

[Saeger]

...for the Apple trendwhores, right? Because nothing says style and performance like a purple neon card inside your computer. WTF?

I wonder what these casemodders are going to do for lifestyle status symbolism when personal computing devices finally shrink out of sight over the next decade? Paint their smartcards with glow-in-the-dark paint? Have the OLED display woven into the back of their shirt display the SETI@Home screensaver with a message like "345,000 work units complete, beeyatches!"?

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nothing is quieter than ice cubes

[AssFace]

When my system is running hot, I'll toss a couple of ice cubes onto my video card.

Totally silent.

Usually then my system crashes and goes down for a day or so and during that time it almost never overheats.

Pretty efficient if you ask me.

Re:What about...

[PurpleBob]

I still wouldn't want to do it though... I, like the great grandparent, am very wary of having water cursing through my computer.

Water molecule #38572039471928372: "God damn it - time to cool the fucking CPU again. Why the hell doesn't that piece of shit stop putting out so much fucking heat? Jesus."