Dark Ride
01-04-2006, 08:07 AM
ASUS announced an innovation that has been around for years, but was never implemented.They installed the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) on the backside of the Extreme N6600TOP Silent graphics card.
The GPU is usually on the front side of the card thus not allowing the heat to spread in the best way it could because hot air tends to go up, which means that part of the heat conducted by the heat-sink usually returns to the GPU.That of course reduces overall cooling efficiency.
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“With Asus exclusive ReverseCool technology, EN6600TOP Silent can be more than 30 degrees cooler than generic GF6600 and provide the quietest 0DB environment,” ASUS claims.
The EN6600TOP Silent is based on a GeForce 6600 graphics chip operating at 400MHz and 256MB of GDDR2 operating at 800MHz. The board is equipped with D-Sub, DVI-I and TV outputs
Source: X-Bit Labs (http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20060102220053.html)
The GPU is usually on the front side of the card thus not allowing the heat to spread in the best way it could because hot air tends to go up, which means that part of the heat conducted by the heat-sink usually returns to the GPU.That of course reduces overall cooling efficiency.
http://www.techpowerup.com/img/06-01-04/asus_6600gddr2_rc_thm.jpg (http://www.techpowerup.com/img/06-01-04/asus_6600gddr2_rc.jpg)
“With Asus exclusive ReverseCool technology, EN6600TOP Silent can be more than 30 degrees cooler than generic GF6600 and provide the quietest 0DB environment,” ASUS claims.
The EN6600TOP Silent is based on a GeForce 6600 graphics chip operating at 400MHz and 256MB of GDDR2 operating at 800MHz. The board is equipped with D-Sub, DVI-I and TV outputs
Source: X-Bit Labs (http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20060102220053.html)