Computex 2006: 300W GPUs, Conroe, HDMI Video Cards and Lots of Motherboards

Gigabyte: 94% of GB Graphics Cards are Passively Cooled

Gigabyte shared one very interesting statistic with us during our meeting: 94% of all Gigabyte graphics card shipments are passively cooled.  Thanks to products like the Silent Pipe and Silent Pipe II, Gigabyte has been able to bring reasonably high performance GPUs to market in a completely fanless solution. 

Gigabyte shared three cards with us in Taiwan: a 6600GT with a Silent Pipe cooler, a 7600GT with a Silent Pipe II cooler, and a passively cooled 7300GS.

The 7300GS solution is actually a half height card, but a heatsink is used at the top of the PCB to make it look like a full height card and most importantly, run cool without a fan.