by Techtree News Staff

Gigabyte has today announced their latest multi-core passive cooling technology, which is built upon the foundation of the company's popular Silent-Pipe series. The technology promises maximum VGA cooling performance.

The new VGA card cooling technology is centered on the principle of 'more is better,' says the company. Utilizing three cool points instead of the traditional single node to connect the heat pipes to the fins, Gigabyte's Multi-Core technology provides additional thermal conductivity for better performance, especially during heavy loading.

Featuring a series of ultra-thin layered fins with nodes of copper, these added cooling points on the heat pipes help to increase the heat conduction ratio, thereby enhancing overall thermal performance. Using two vents to take advantage of the natural convection of airflow inside the chassis, Multi-Core Technology is able to efficiently disperse the heat from the GPU, and is also able to cool down the GPU up to 7 degree centrigrade more than by using an active fan cooling design, says the company.

In addition to its Multi-Core Technology, Gigabyte has developed the unique Gamer HUD (Heads Up Display) utility to allow hardcore gaming enthusiasts to tweak the highest levels of performance from their VGA card. This utility features the Gamer HUD Engine, a solution to adjust GPU voltage through a software control panel. With multi-level GPU and memory voltage control settings, users can squeeze the highest amount of performance from their cards, says the company.

The Gamer HUD utility also supports adjusting of GPU, shader (Nvidia only) and memory clock settings, for maximum overclocking performance. Furthermore, an all new PWM Frequency feature is bundled in the latest version of Gamer HUD, supporting two modes of optimized power configurations. Turbo mode provides an increase in power, allowing for better overclocking capabilities. Otherwise, you can simply set it to default.

In addition, advanced power savings are possible through the auto-optimized 2D/3D GPU frequency switching feature. When enabling 2D applications such as email, Web browsing, and media playback, the GPU frequency will be downgraded to 2D mode automatically which saves power consumption. For more graphics-intensive applications such as gaming and 3D rendering, the 3D switch is activated, raising the GPU frequency to allow for the greatest level of performance. Gigabyte's 2D/3D switch can be set on Auto-Optimized Mode (Enable) or Customizable Mode (Disable), depending on user preference.

Gigabyte claims their VGA cards provide the stability and reliability hardcore gamers have come to expect from their high-end graphics solution. They also claim that their Ultra Durable 2 Edition graphics cards deliver the ideal integration of thermal, electric characteristics, digital signals, power circuitry, and optimum placement for enhanced graphics performance, improving stability of electric voltage and current, for the ultimate in graphics overclocking capabilities.

Gigabyte's three Point Cooling and latest Overclocking technologies are going to be showcased at Computex 2008, which starts tomorrow.