scr4wl Posted March 21, 2012 Posted March 21, 2012 Do you think this card would have any issues in a case with very little airflow? A lot of HTPC cases aren't exactly paradigms of cooling. Yes, if you don't have any air flowing through the fins, to dissipate heat, on that cooler it's just going to get hotter and hotter LOL! As long as you can position a case fan near the card you should be fine though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted March 21, 2012 Posted March 21, 2012 Good to hear. I guess that's an issue with any passive cooler. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scr4wl Posted March 21, 2012 Posted March 21, 2012 I guess that's an issue with any passive cooler. Yep, some are better than others though. Sapphire has been pretty good with the ULTIMATE card's coolers. I tested, I believe, the 5XXX series version a while back and that cooler performed equally well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyt Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 Looks like passive cards are becoming more and more powerful with die shrinks Soon we might even have a HD7970 performance equivalent passive card ... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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