Gigabyte's AGP 7600GS passive & G chassis?

[Bane]

An AGP 7600GS by Gigabyte GV-N76G256D-RH.

Unlike the previous 6600 and 6800 passively cooled cards, this one doesn't seem to have a heatpipe arrangement transferring connecting to fins on the back of the card. So no need to hack away bits of the drive cage or optical drive.

As the heat dissipation is limited to the one side, wondered how hot the card would get as it's shielded from the ICE fan. If anyone has brought one yet.

 

[jollygreengiant]

I've got a 7600 GS by MSI

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It's got the nice nVidia control panel which tells you how hot the chip is. I don't have mine overclocked and it's temps were about 64 degrees idle and about 78 under load. The warning claxon doesn't go off until the temp hits 125 so there's plenty of margin.

Nice little card - obvioulsy not the most powerful but no fans = no noise