This is an XFX 7900GTX with a Zalman cooling fan and extra passive blue spiky pad things fitted. This was taken just before I dropped it in the bin, since I've replaced it 3 years after buying it with something just as good for a tenth of the price. I've not had hardware graphics support for over a year since this thing went bonkers and refused to process 3D graphics or even render a potato without flashing all over the screen and killing my computer stone dead. In other words, I've been using software rendering for all applications for a year, including photoshop, which means when you're processing a 1.3gb hdr file and swapping images in and out of memory things run a little slower than I'd like. Adobe bridge was taking minutes to render high resolution thumbnails for relatively small photoshop files. So I spent 30 quid on a new passively cooled XFX 8400GS and now everything is working fine again. I mean, I wouldn't be playing Crysis on it or anything, but things work like they should do. That was so interesting I might as well have made it all up. You've probably got a Mac and you're wondering what on earth I'm talking about, but then, you probably don't get the vicarious thrill of dropping dead components in the bin like PC users do. At least I'm not Spartacus any more. Nick is. And I happen to know he throws whole iBooks in the bin.

Very nice case, completely passive cooled. Just the case is worth 1000 SFr. There are like 15 in the LHCb control room.