WintersFury Posted August 12, 2006 Posted August 12, 2006 The HIS cards are nice with the IceQ on em. It's actually an arctic cooling cooler so I'd say that's why it's so nice. I was unfortunately having issues with the rig I bought the card with so I don't know about noise while gaming, but it's amazingly quiet while doing 2d work. Only downfall is the cooler only cools the gpu and not the ram and there isn't enough room under it to really put heatsinks on the ram chips. However for gpu ocing it seems like it would do the trick. The x1600 Pro cards seem to have similar performance to the 9800 pro cards. (I used to use a 9800 pro before I upgraded my old agp rig to a x1600 pro) But the SM3 support and HDR and all make things look way better while keeping similar framerates and for about $100 or less it's a good deal. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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