Gigabyte's Radeon X800: Give the Gamers What They Want

Introduction

While the card's layout is based closely on the usual Ati reference design, Gigabyte tries to set itself apart from the competition with its cooler. Two blue LEDs are installed behind the semi-transparent fan, making for some interesting lighting effects for transparent cases. Since the fan's blades are not completely transparent, the glow flickers, instead of being constant.

The card's layout is based on ATi's reference design. The cooling solution is also similar to ATi's, but it is slightly larger and comes with two LEDs.

The fan is laudably quiet as it cools the memory modules and graphics processor.