Club 3D Intros Passively Cooled Radeon HD 5750

As always, after the official introduction of the stock model of a graphics adapter, or of any product, for that matter, hardware manufacturers always start releasing modified, custom-cooled or aesthetically improved versions of the same product in order to somehow differentiate their item from the similar offers made by competing companies. Club 3D's passively cooled Radeon HD 5750 is one such example, although the upcoming card boasts definitely more than just a few appearance changes.

The result of the special effort placed into designing this custom-cooled Radeon HD 5750 is the silent version of the card. Although the stock specs remain the same, the cooling module is fanless and, as such, totally quiet, not to mention more power efficient. The heatsink uses a GPU block and four copper heatpipes that convey the heat to an aluminum fin array. This allows the card to maintain its stock clock speed of 700MHz without oveheating dangers.

In addition, the heatsink also helps the memory itself keep its cool, allowing the 1GB GDDR5 to freely flaunt its power whenever graphics applications demand it. Of course, the graphics adapter retains all of its other stock capabilities, including the 128-bit memory interface, the 720 stream processors and the support for ATI CrossFireX and Eyefinity.

Unlike Sapphire, which released a custom version of the Radeon HD 5770 (Radeon HD 5770 Vapor-X), Club 3D has partnered with both NVIDIA and ATI. This means that the company has access to the entire graphics market of both AMD and NVIDIA-oriented consumers. For this reason, Club 3D could safely invest time and funds into building a custom cooler especially designed for the 5750, unlike Sapphire, which has had to adapt its already existing Vapor-X technology in order to make up for the fact that it can, currently, only make ATI-based cards.

Club 3D's Radeon HD 5750 fanless model may reach stores with prices as low as 110 to 140 Euro.