I ran an XFX 7950GT for several years. As a fanless design I thought it was great. And at the time it was considered highish-end.

Incredibly, it never overheated (Australian summers!) when gaming, indeed it was never warmer than 65-70oC or so in a well-ventilated case. A friend's Leadtek 7950GT with reference cooling got quite hot.

Now moved over to the red team for this generation, a great card, far better than the 7950GT in the subjective price/gaming experiences ratio, but I miss the silence!

Most noise is power supply fan, with HDD adding constant thunder. For GOOD, Yet Low Scores, Wonder if its worth it.
Like integrated that needs small fan add on, probably 60C is going to be too much, with wear. In Fact TOP End Integrated Get Better Vantage Scores, Today.

Inside Small Box, Maybe WINNER...yet In General, Price/Peformance,GPU FAN Isn't That Big of Noise Source to Lose 2x-3x performance over.

Hope to Inspire with Pic of Mummified Slyvia When Move about partitions, So Watch for IT.

Hahaha. Great Western HOT Desert....

vondrashek

My brother bought a fanless Gigabyte 9600 GT last year and the thing overheated like crazy. Gigabyte make you pay to send it in to be checked to see if it has a defect.

He ended up buying an aftar market cooler.

Gigabyte = Useless

Gigabyte also have what I believe is a comparable solution for ATi lovers, the 4850-based GV-R485MC-1GI.

I mean, I stopped memorizing benchmarks a while ago, but a 4850 is a bit faster than a 4770 which is about the same as a 9800GT, right?

Not to mention ATi chips are less likely to melt, if you believe all that...

Yup - thanx for comment! As the photo shows, it did run on open air, hot one at that this being Singapore

Nice find! I have a question regarding the test though.
Did you run it with the case open as the picture shows? I find the results to be excellent, but I'm asking because if it was enclosed in the case and the room temperature was so high, well in that case it is simply amazing.

I was expecting
Cons: Not Fast enough, Bad Silicon design, epic fail

or something like that. So is this not the case anymore or was that story a load of BS?