Warning about Gigabyte X700

braddk · Post by **braddk** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:47 pm

This is just a little warning about the Gigabyte X700 Pro 128MB video card. There seem to be two versions of the card. One is fanless while the other is not.

Unfortunately, I found this out tonight, when in great excitement I opened my box to find... a heatsink fan. Now quite annoyed, I checked Gigabyte's website and sure enough there are two versions of the Gigabyte X700 128. The model numbers are:

GV-RX70128D - the fanless version

GV-RX70P128D - the fanned version

The problem, obviously other the fact that the model numbers are so similar is that many websites are advertising the fanned version with a picture of the fanless model. Ugh. Time to get an RMA, I guess.

The other difference seems to be that the fanless version is an X700 and the fanned version is an X700 Pro.

Kevin Ar18 · Post by **Kevin Ar18** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 4:54 pm

Thanks for the info.
I fixed it here:
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewto ... 333#132333

braddk · Post by **braddk** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 6:02 pm

Kevin Ar18 wrote:Thanks for the info.
I fixed it here:
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewto ... 333#132333

Good. Hopefully no one else will make the same mistake I did.

davidstone28 · Post by **davidstone28** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 10:01 am

Slight off topic but I can't pass up an opportunity to have a mini rant - Gigabyte's marketing is a bit dodgy. I've one of their Nforce2 boards called Pro2. You'd think that it would be a improvement over the Pro1 but its actually worse, is a 4 layer board rather than 6 and has no vcore adjustment or CPU holes. Damn Gigabaytes marketing!

Wraith · Post by **Wraith** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 6:05 pm

Also two versions of the 6600GT by Gigabyte:

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GV-NX66T128VP

fanless
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GV-NX66T128D

fanned
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Gigabyte Graphics Card lineup

Copyright · Post by **Copyright** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:27 pm

Wouldnt you rather have the X700 Pro? I mean between the non pro and pro is the chipset different? Pro being higher performance? I think id rather just slap a fanless cooler on it and keep the Pro card if its a faster card.. *shrug* I'm an Nvidia fan so I havent kept up with ATI cards.

Wedge · Post by **Wedge** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 12:57 am

Not completely sure but I think the x700 is about to be short-lived. There is an article that deals with the January refresh of chips from ATI and it basically nudges the x700 out of a competitive slot (~ $200 range I think?). I'll post back a link to that article tomorrow, but I have to get to bed right now (3am here now).