At last count, the new DirectX 10 compliant GeForce 8 series of graphics cards from NVIDIA was already pushing in access of 680 million transistors on die, easily doubling that of the previous generation and one wonders what ATI has planned to counter that. Though vastly improving in power and performance, one of the unavoidable side effects of this GPU arms race has been the increasing amount of heat generated by these powerful graphics processors. Manufacturers have devised ever-larger heat sinks, even utilizing formerly exotic methods in order to solve this problem. Cooler Master's latest solution for graphics cards, the sizable CoolViva Pro looks to be an interesting new twist on silent heat-pipe cooling.



Link: HardwareZone