Gigabyte silent pipe d33006 motherboard series#
It's also a very good reason to go with a newer Radeon HD card compared to an older Radeon X1000 series card.įinally, the bundle included with this mid-range Radeon HD graphics card is more than adequate, complete with the necessary adaptors and bridge. A new video processor is also integrated within the GPU to assist the CPU when decoding high definition content and making use of this hardware acceleration should reduce the workload on the CPU, allowing for better performance and lower overall power consumed. Other standard features that you can expect in this Radeon HD card include the support for HDCP, the main reason why ATI brands this new generation with 'HD' in its name. We'll find out more about these differences later in the benchmarks. Both variants have the same core clock, meaning that for the cost conscious, the GDDR3 version could probably roughly offer similar performance at a reduced price. The GDDR4 variant has more expensive memory and is clocked significantly higher at 2200MHz DDR compared to the 1400MHz DDR on this Gigabyte. The cooler itself can get quite warm during benchmarking and keeping our fingers on it was not possible after more than a few seconds.Īs for the graphics hardware, it's a standard clocked Radeon HD 2600 XT using GDDR3 memory. The DDR3 memory chips are not cooled directly and mostly hidden under the heavy cooler.
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With the radiator of this Silent Pipe cooler keep within the dimensions of a single PCI slot, this is one card that won't interfere with the adjacent expansion slot - a major plus point for a silent heat pipe cooled card. Gigabyte still has the older two-slot Silent Pipe II cooler but they are reserving that option for cards with higher thermal dissipation, while this newer single-slot Silent Pipe II will be adopted for cards which they deem to have lower thermal dissipations. The 'new' Silent Pipe II is a single slot cooler for the GPU, with a copper heat pipe running through it and distributing the heat. This also happens to be the case with the Silent Pipe II that we found on this Gigabyte Radeon HD 2600 XT, which looks nothing like the Silent Pipe II on Gigabyte's older GeForce 7600 GT, shown in our review here. There have been quite a few generations and variants in this series and they seem to differ from one generation to another and we have seen the situation where two such Silent Pipe coolers could bear the same name but are entirely different in appearance. Gigabyte continues to churn out passively cooled graphics cards equipped with its Silent Pipe series of coolers. The Gigabyte RV-RX26T256H (Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR3) The Gigabyte RV-RX26T256H (Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR3)
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