Tweakers Australia has just posted a review on the Gigabyte MAYA AP64D-H Radeon 8500 Deluxe, one of the best performing value-for-money cards around. Press READ MORE for further Info!!! Gigabyte has redesigned their card to escape the all too familiar ATI reference look. Red has been the PCB color choice, and mounted to the front is a particularly chunky chromed heatsink. An aluminium heatsink plate has also been stuck to the back, held in place with the same pins that secure the front heatsink. While the passive design is adequate for the memory cooling at the back, the heatsink mounted to the front features a savage looking fan rated at around the 5000rpm mark, required for cooling the GPU. I was pleased to see that Gigabyte placed a good amount of silicon thermal paste in between the heatsinks and the GPU/memory, enough to maintain optimal thermal conductivity. Source Link: Tweakers Australia
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