ARCTIC COOLING is a private owned company founded in 2001 with headquarters in Switzerland, offices in Hong Kong and with production facilities in Asia. The team of ARCTIC COOLING insists on international young highly educated people with business, technical and communicational skills. The attitude to work is based on the Swiss innovative spirit and adheres to the high Swiss standard recognized internationally. This striving for excellence is integrated in all processes and is a matter of course. ARCTIC COOLING's core competencies are multifarious such as systematic noise reduction, copper and aluminum heatsinks, customizing of thermal solutions, “Just-in-time” fan manufacturing, Ceramic Bearing, Multiple Signal Output / BIOS interface and low noise Fan Blade Design..

Today we are looking at  the Ati silencer 5 (Rev 2), now everyone that knows about cooling would know for VGA the Arctic cooling VGA silencer has been a popular choice among people seeking silence as well as performance. What we are going to in today’s review is find out if the silencer is still king for VGA cooling. The card selected for today’s review is the Sapphire X800XL, the reason for selecting this card is because although it’s a good performer all round I believe the standard cooler fitted to it hampers its overclockability,  so enough of the background and lets get on with the review.

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