sure that they're warranted to work with your graphics card and GPU because not every GPU is suitable for passive cooling. You should also be aware that the amount of space that a passively cooled (or converted) graphics card consumes inside your PC case is...

from Asus, the M2N with Centrino technology, uses a passive cooling method without any annoying fan noise. Our field test clears up once and for all whether passive processor cooling is enough for the Pentium M.. Asus' latest model, the M2N, is sold in the...

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fans with a passion and I'm always happy to see motherboards that manage to make do without them. Figure 15: North and South bridges are passively cooled. Graphics The low profile Nvidia Geforce 6600 (Figure 16) won't win any benchmarking trophies, but it's...

so tightly that even adding an extra fan can be out of the question. Passive cooled components are preferred to those that are actively cooled. Whenever it is feasible, silence should be a priority over performance. Avoid Northbridge fans! They're nasty little...

Nvidia side, from vendors such as eVGA, Gigabyte and MSI, among others. No passively cooled 8xxx models are available (and would probably require water cooling to do away with potentially noisy fans anyway). Because we didn't have a passively cooled 7600 HDMI/...