“Recently I switched from an ATI X800XT PE Video Card to a Connect 3D X850XT PE PCI Express Video Card. I was impressed with the performance of the X850XT PE however the temperatures and the noise generated by this Video Card really left me disappointed with ATI’s latest flagship Video Card. My X800XT PE was just about as fast, silent and the load temperature of the Video Card never broke 60 degrees Celcius. From the moment I powered up my system with this red PCI-e beast installed I knew things were going to be different. At this point I could not go back to an AGP setup, isn’t PCI Express the future? So I began to look for an alternate cooling method. While surfing late one night I stumbled across the Arctic Cooling ATI Silencer 5 Revision 2 GPU Cooler and while half asleep I placed my order.”
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