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In article <521kl3-ler.ln1@news.vuw.ac.nz>, thingy@nowhere.spammers.commy 
says...
> 
> Looking at the Asus and the gigabyte, the extra price of the gigabyte 
> seems to be the passive cooling solution, which it is normal to pay 
> extra for from what I can determine.....
> 
>  From bitter experience over the last 5~6 years a fan on a hi-end 
> graphics card cannot actually be replacedd easily, if at all....so I am 
> all for passive cooling if possible. think I have lost all three of my 
> hi-end video cards due to this....
> 
> regards
> 
> Thing

Have a look at the Zalman heatpipe passive heatsinks. Around 50-60 bucks. 

http://www.ascent.co.nz/ProductSpecification.aspx?ItemID=117445

I put one on my graphics card just to cut the noise from that horrid cheap busy 
little fan. This sucker is huge (covers both sides of the card, and provides 
extra heatsinks for the ram chips, and it barely gets warm to the touch.
I DID have to remove the oem cooler, obviously. The model I use has two 
heatpipes between top and bottom layer, I think it's the 50-D from memory, but 
I am not sure.

-P.

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