PC Hardware posted a review of the Pine Technology Excalibur GeForce2 Pro video card. Although Pine products are not very popular between enthusiasts we discovered that the card uses a good cooling system (GPU heatsink+fan, RAM sinks), 5ns memory and provides S-video out. Excalibur is very well priced on Pricewatch and compared with Hercules Prophet II Pro it succeeded to perform almost the same. Take a quote:
"The cooling principle is quite basic, the heat is removed using the heatsink edge wall and the powerful fan. By the way, the fan is quite large for a GeForce2 Pro video card.
The memory heatsinks were attached to the memory chips using thermal exchange glue, which unfortunately didn't cover the entire chip surface. We removed the memory heatsinks and we discovered that the card used 5ns Hynix memory. Based in Korea Hynix is one of the world's largest memory manufacturers. This was the first time when we actually worked with their DDR video card chips."
Review URL:
http://www.pchardware.ro/Reviews/review.php?id=138