The first picture of a Radeon HD 2900 XT without the reference cooler made its way onto the net. This one comes from Sapphire and has an interesting heatpipe cooling solution. It looks unusual and has three heatpipes to cool this rather warm chip.
![sapphire_r600 sapphire_r600](/images/stories/2007/May/graphics/sapphire_r600.jpg)
The first one without reference cooler