| Thread Tools |
31st July 2007, 00:15 | #1 |
Member Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 15,738
| Gigabyte Silent Pipe 3 finds redemption Back in May, we compared a fistful of graphics cards based on Nvidia's GeForce 8600 series graphics chips and were surprised to find that the passively-cooled Gigabyte GV-NX86S256H was anything but the quiet solution its "Silent Pipe 3" cooler advertised. The card was quiet enough at idle, but under load it quickly developed a shrill, high-pitched whine that would make Fran Drescher shudder. So much for passive cooling, or so we thought. We went through a couple of sample cards from Gigabyte, and both exhibited the same screeching under load, prompting Gigabyte to investigate further. The company apparently traced the issue back to a batch of bad electrical components—chokes, specifically—that it had received from one of its vendors. This batch of bad chokes didn't affect every GV-NX86S256H sold, but both our samples came from an inflicted batch, so Gigabyte sent us a fresh card for testing. Read on to see how it fared. http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/12962
__________________ lazyman Opteron 165 (2) @2.85 1.42 vcore AMD Stock HSF + Chill Vent II |
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
GIGABYTE Radeon HD 5750 Silent Cell & HD 5570 OC Video Cards | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 21st June 2010 17:00 |
Gigabyte Radeon HD5750 Silent Cell Video Card Review | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 28th May 2010 14:59 |
Gigabyte 9800 Silent Cell Review | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 9th September 2009 11:33 |
Gigabyte 9800GT 1GB Silent Cell Review | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 23rd July 2009 15:05 |
Gigabyte 9800 GT Silent Cell | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 23rd July 2009 15:04 |
Gigabyte Silent Cell to Tackle HD 4770 | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 3rd June 2009 19:45 |
Gigabyte 8600GTS 256MB Silent Pipe 3 Video Card Review | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 13th August 2007 10:25 |
Gigabyte GeForce 8600GTS Silent Pipe III Video Card | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 5th June 2007 08:21 |
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH Silent Geforce 7600GT Videocard | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 20th October 2006 06:45 |
Gigabyte 6600GT Silent Pipe | Sidney | WebNews | 0 | 16th September 2005 14:49 |
Thread Tools | |
| |