NVidia Quadro FX 700 - "silent cooling"?

[lenny]

Noticed a new press release by NVidia:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_11934.html

Unfortunately no information other than "featuring a new silent cooling system" on the noise front.

Anyone know what it's equivalent to in terms of their consumer / gamer product line?

I've been googling for pictures without success. Most links lead to Quadro 700 Go which is a solution for notebooks. Their product naming leaves much to be desired.

The Quadro is probably going to be priced out of my budget, since it's a workstation card. But I'm just wondering about this "new silent cooling system" and whether it can be adapted for other cards.

I won't be very susprised if it turns out to be a heatpipe with massive heat sinks. After all, marketing is not exactly known for being truthful. Or being knowledgeable, for that matter. But that's topic for another forum

[fmah]

I noticed this too, but I didn't see any pictures. However, the Quadro FX 500 is a board like the 5200, so the heatsinking is similar. I am assuming the 700 is a step above the 500 and probably capable of being cooled by a large heatsink. Of course without pictures, it's hard to tell.

[silencio]

The Quadro4 FX700 just uses a big heatsink:

http://www.pny.com/products/quadro/fx/700fx.asp

This raises the question, why can't the equivalent Geforce card, an FX 5900XT, be cooled the same way?

[nutball]

The Quadro4 FX700 just uses a big heatsink:

http://www.pny.com/products/quadro/fx/700fx.asp

This raises the question, why can't the equivalent Geforce card, an FX 5900XT, be cooled the same way?

Is it equivalent to the 5900XT? I thought the FX700 was more akin to the 5700 (which is available passively cooled I believe).

[silencio]

I can't be completely sure, but check out this:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php ... ight=fx700