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XFX releases fanless 7950 GTs

by Steve Kerrison on 18 October 2006, 18:55

Tags: XFX (HKG:1079)

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XFX has announced its latest 7900 GS and 7950 GT products, the latter containing SKUs with no fans... yessir, fanless.

The company is launching four 7900 GSs, all with 256MiB of memory, GDDR3 and the usual outputs. The four SKUs differ in core and memory clocks, with the former ranging from 450 to 600MHz and the latter from 1.32 to 1.6GHz. Naturally, the fastest model is the 'XXX' edition.

Slightly more exciting is the 7950 GT range, although it's also slightly more confusing, with five SKUs to choose from. GPU and memory speeds range from 550-610MHz and 1.4-1.6GHz respectively. Three of the SKUs are cooled purely by heatpipes. There are two 'ExTreme' editions, one with and one without the fanless design, while the 'XXX' edition of the 7950 GT comes only in a fanless form, XFX proving that they don't need any fans to keep that GPU at bay.

So it's the regular XFX stylee approach of providing pre-overclocked, guaranteed cards, plus some silent cooling should you fancy it. Just don't get bogged down in all those SKUs...

More details over at XFX's website.



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I like this rising popularity of passivly cooled cards, but ATI and nVidia need to work on power efficency for the masses instead of insanely fast cards for a few people.
I considered one of these, when I bought my 7950GT. Decided against it, just because I knew I;d end up tearing it off and putting an aftermarket one on for higher clocks. Which is exactly what happened (the stock cooler lasted long enough to run one loop of 3Dmark to make sure it wasn't DOA).

Nice to see cooler cards, I'm not a fan of having something sitting at 80-90c sitting in my case. Mine barely reaches 55c most of the time, even with a decent overclock. A Fatlal1ty VF900 thing is sitting on it right now.

Btw dynamic sigs and the ad in the top right points to the OCZ press release instead of the XFX one.
As much as I'm not much of a fan of XFX, I have to say that these do look pretty good. I agree with what Chuckskull said about swapping the stock cooler, I was going to stick an NV silencer on this, but theres no power socket, so thats a job for another time.
I would never buy a graphics card with a fan :)

Whats the point in the best graphics in the world, if you can hear the audio over the fan noise =)
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I would never buy a graphics card with a fan :)

Whats the point in the best graphics in the world, if you can hear the audio over the fan noise =)

turn the music up so high you can't hear the fan tbh :D