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Tyan Tachyon G9500 PRO Review
After posting our original Tachyon G9700 PRO review last year, we were surprised by how few of you had heard of Tyan Computer Corporation. Founded in 1989, Tyan has made a name for itself in the motherboard market, with its emphasis historically on server and workstation products. Tyan does make a line of consumer desktop motherboards, but these products have traditionally featured little room for adjusting system parameters such as system bus speeds, making Tyan motherboards a rare sight in the average hardware enthusiast’s or gamers’ rig.
Tyan pulls a complete 180 with its graphics products however. Their Tachyon line of graphics cards is geared directly at the enthusiast market. Their Tachyon G9700 PRO featured a very impressive cooling setup. Not only was the surface area of the G9700 PRO’s heatsink significantly greater than anything else on the market, Tyan backed it up with a high-speed fan.
What really set the Tachyon G9700 PRO apart however is its unique hardware-monitoring feature. Dubbed the Tyan Graphics Monitor, this utility provided hardware monitoring of parameters such as core/memory temperature and voltages, as well as an overclocking function.
For the Tachyon G9500 PRO, Tyan has added even more improvements to the Tyan Graphics Monitor, now up to version 2.0. Now end users can actually enable automatic speed adjustment of the graphics core fan! This feature recently debuted in NVIDIA’s GeForce FX family.
Tyan pulls a complete 180 with its graphics products however. Their Tachyon line of graphics cards is geared directly at the enthusiast market. Their Tachyon G9700 PRO featured a very impressive cooling setup. Not only was the surface area of the G9700 PRO’s heatsink significantly greater than anything else on the market, Tyan backed it up with a high-speed fan.
What really set the Tachyon G9700 PRO apart however is its unique hardware-monitoring feature. Dubbed the Tyan Graphics Monitor, this utility provided hardware monitoring of parameters such as core/memory temperature and voltages, as well as an overclocking function.
For the Tachyon G9500 PRO, Tyan has added even more improvements to the Tyan Graphics Monitor, now up to version 2.0. Now end users can actually enable automatic speed adjustment of the graphics core fan! This feature recently debuted in NVIDIA’s GeForce FX family.
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