XFX Unveils Passively Cooled Radeon R7 240 and 250 Cards

[N.Broekhuijsen]

XFX has revealed two new passively cooled Radeon R7-200 series graphics cards.

XFX Unveils Passively Cooled Radeon R7 240 and 250 Cards : Read more

 

[anxiousinfusion]

The perfect home theater cards.

 

[rohitbaran]

R9 250 and R9 240 in second and third paragraphs instead of R7. Typo.

 

[Darkz0r]

Never buying XFX again after the 7970 fiasco. What a bad brand, costumer support is a copy paste joke!
Id rather have Asus passive cooled cards or nothing at all!

 

[ocilfa]

Now if only we could have a passive cooled R9 290x...

 

[bemused_fred]

Now if only we could have a passive cooled R9 290x...

You'd need a cooling tower.

 

[SteelCity1981]

^^^^^ or a down clocking the hell out of it. lol

 

[Menigmand]

There is just something passively cool about these cards.

 

[chaospower]

I think waiting for the new apus is a better option for a new htpc build

 

[spookie]

Now if only we could have a passive cooled R9 290x...

You'd need a cooling tower.

how do you like my new build: 4x passive cooled R9 290x's in crossfire
http://whatiswatertreatment.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/cooling-towers-nice.jpg

 

[lowguppy]

It's too bad that the best low profile card of the new R7/R9 batch is the 250, and it is about 2/3s the performance of the previous gen's low profile 7750. I still might consider the 240 for very small HTPC that has to be silent, but I'd rather have a 7750 or a larger card on a riser.

 

[tanjali]

If we changed materials used in R9 290x from Copper to Stanene or Graphene
We wouldn't even need passive cooler, so it’s achievable!

 

[Haravikk]

I've got a semi-built console sized PC I've been hoping to finish, and a dual-height low profile card should fit well in the space; I could use one with fan of course but a passive card should work just fine with the cooling I'm going to use.

I just wonder how it will compare to the Sapphire Low Profile Radeon HD 7750 I was original going to put in (non-passive)?

 

[coolitic]

DO THESE GUYS EVEN NOW WHAT RADEON IS?!?!??! That stuff gets hot as hell, you gotta downclock it to idle temps for this to even work.

 

[Darkk]

That is why they under clocked them to keep it cool with passive heat sinks.

Great looking cards. Should fit the bill for HTPC nicely.