Asus EAX1600XT SILENT passively-cooled graphics card
Gaming performance without the noise?
13th April 2006 15:02 GMT
The same goes for 3DMark06, although the gains here seemed to be even higher as in some scenarios the score more than doubled.

The cards where tested using the Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe motherboard, an AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 processor, 1GB of Crucial Ballistix PC3200 DDR memory, a Western Digital Caviar 16SE hard drive and a Tagan 2force power supply.


Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Dual Core Processor (3GHz, 6MB, 1333MHz FSB, LGA775 Socket T)
Intel Core i7 I7-920 Quad Core Processor (2.66GHz, 4x256kB, 4.8GT/s QPI, LGA 1336 Socket B)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Dual Core Processor (3.1GHz, 2MB, 1000MHz FSB, Socket AM2)
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Processor (2.40GHz, 4x2MB, 1066MHz FSB, Socket T)
AMD Phenom X4 9950 Quad-Core Processor (2.6GHz, 2MB, 2000MHz FSB, Socket AM2+)