Club 3D HD5550 Noiseless Edition drops |
I have a high-end ATI video card in my work PC that I sometimes play video games on. The fan on the video card is very loud and some days it drives me crazy. I have been considering a passively cooled video card for a while now.
Club 3D has unveiled a new passively cooled video card called the ATI Radeon HD5550 Noiseless Edition. The card uses a massive heat sink and dual heat pipes for cooling. The video card has 512MB of GDDR3 RAM clocked at 800MHz.
The core clock on the GPU is 550MHz and memory bandwidth is 128-bit. The card has 320 stream processors and supports up to 2560 x 1600 resolution. The massive heat sink makes the card a two-slot design.
TAGS: ATI, video card
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Looks like a flash and no substance card to me, the much faster 5570 cards have been available passively cooled from launch with tiny heatsinks so why would you need such a big one on what is a cut down version of the 5570?
They have upped this to GDDR3 memory instead of the usual DDR2 it should be much nearer in performance to the 5570 so if they can sell it for a low enough price it may have a place.
It’s not half as interesting as a passively cooled 5670 or 5750/5770 would be though.