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ASUS NV18 Cards & Hercules Radeon 9700 PRO Review
Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 09/26/2002 10:45 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]
T-Break has published a review on the Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 PRO
Hercules has done a great job with trying to keep the card cool. All of the memory chips are covered by RAMSINKs and Hercules puts a copper heatsink on the core as well as behind it which is great as the card does get pretty hot in the area behind the core. As far as we know, Hercules is the only manufacturer adopting this cooling method. There is one slight drawback to the heatsink behind the card and if you take a look at the last couple of pictures, you'll notice that if the CPU socket is close to AGP slot, then you might run into problems. We used an ASUS P4T533 motherboard and you can see how tight the space between the CPU heatsink and the one behind the core is
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