Sapphire to introduce passively cooled HD2600 XT

Sapphire Technology has announced its silent HD 2600 XT Ultimate Edition graphics card. The new Sapphire HD 2600 XT Ultimate Edition features a passive cooling solution with dual heat-pipes, that route around the backside of the graphics card to a multiple fins in a radiator-style layout.

The passive cooler has not affected the clockspeeds that Sapphire uses, the Ultimate edition is clocked at 800 MHz, similar to actively cooled models. Sapphire pairs the 800 MHz GPU with 1.4 GHz GDDR3 memory and offers the HD 2600 XT Ultimate Edition in two memory sizes, 256MB and 512MB. The GPU communicates with the memory via a 128-bit memory interface.

Sapphire equips the HD 2600 XT Ultimate Edition with dual dual-link DVI-I outputs and video input and output capabilities. With an included adapter, the Sapphire HD 2600 XT Ultimate Edition will output HDMI multichannel audio and high definition video.

Sapphire says they are currently shipping the HD 2600 XT Ultimate Edition, but it is not expected to show up in stores before July. Pricing has not yet been disclosed.

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