For those who morph into buying a GeForce 9600 GT, the passive cooling model of ASUS is definitely a consideration.
According to ASUS, the V-Cool "rib package" does its job by bypassing the reference cooling: according to the manufacturer's measurements, it keeps the G94 graphics core at a temperature 10 degrees Celsius lower. Knowing this, it is not at all surprising that there was no need to reduce the factory clocks, i.e. the GPU still runs at 650, the 64 shaders at 1625, and the 512 MB GDDR3 memory at 1800 MHz. owner. With the help of the tuning software, the clock signal of the graphics processor and shader units can be adjusted independently.
ASUS EN9600GT SILENT / HTDI / 512M