Tyan or Hercules

[cheekybeast]

Tyan Tachyon G9700 pro

or

Hercules Prophet 9700 pro

They both look very overclockable, hercules has a big gpu heatsink/fan, with little ramsinks; it looks as if tyan has one huge heatsink that covers the gpu and heatsinks. Tyan also has hardware monitoring.

Is there anything really important to know about either card? Which would you recommend?

 

[Ghostdog]

Actually Hercules´ cooler isn´t that big, but it´s solid cooper. Hercules also has all the RAM-chips covered with HS, whereas (if I remember correctly) Tyan only has the chips on top of the card covered.

Tyan is said to be a bit louder than the Prophet and might overclock better. That´s the main points I can think of.

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