While waiting for AMD to give the OK for the release of the Radeon HD 4850 X2 and the HD 4600 series cards Gigabyte has designed a a dead-silent Radeon HD 4850. Pictured below, the new card has a very Gigabyte-y blue-colored PCB, 1GB of GDDR3 memory and a dual-slot passive cooling system that makes use of the Multi-Core Cooling technology and features two aluminum fin arrays and, if we're not mistaking, four copper heatpipes.

Under the heatsink, the 800 Stream Processor-boasting RV770 GPU has a stock frequency of 625 MHz while the memory hovers around 1986 MHz. As with others Radeon HD 4850 cards, Gigabyte's passively-cooled model requires additional power via one 6-pin PCIe connector and offers things like UVD 2, a PCI-Express 2.0 interface, DirectX 10.1 support and CrossFireX readiness. In terms of price the card can be found for under 170 Euro.