For those who don't know, the X700 has roughly equivilant power to a 9800XT.
It has more vertex shaders, but a 128bit memory bus (verses the 9800's 256bit bus). Where it beats the 9800 is in clock speeds, where it is significantly faster.
Anyway, I have to wonder:
* Will Zalman come up with a passive cooler for this card?
* Will Arctic Cooling come up with a Silencer for it?
With regards to Zalman, they already offered their heatpipe cooler for 9800XT's. While this card is more powerful, it's also produced at a smaller micron level so should theoretically produce less heat than the 9800s - so a Zalman cooler should be possible if they think the market is there.
With regards to Arctic Cooling, the X700's GPU and systems are reported to be very similar to the X800's. Could this even mean that a Silencer designed for an X800 might fit?
If anyone's heard anything, here's the place to tell us!
