Beyond3D has check out what the Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9700 PRO Ultimate Edition 128MB has to offer.
For this board Sapphire have employed a Zalman heat-pipe solution, rather than a more standard cooler with a fan. As can be seen this solution uses a lot of metal, which eats up the PCI slot adjacent to the AGP slot and also plenty of room on the back side of the board. The pay-off, though, is that we can still get the full performance of the Radeon 9700 PRO but silently, as there is no fan on the board.Read more
