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"First of One" <daxinfx@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Noise won't be a deciding factor if you decide to install a Arctic Cooling
> NVSilencer in place of the stock heat sink/fan. The extra $30 is small
> compared to the cost of the card.
This is all true (in fact I have a VGA Silencer myself). *However*, I would
point out two things:
1. The stock cooler on a GT is really pretty quiet anyway. The fan is
fairly noisy when it speeds up to full speed at boot time, but it then
quietens down once windows is up. Whilst surfing etc, you are unlikely to
be bothered by the stock fan unless your rig is *extremely* quiet. All this
worry over fan noise is unwarranted, imho. For example, my GT with stock
fan was certainly quiter than my old ATI 9700 pro, and no-one complained
about the fan noise on that.
In my current rig I have 2 120mm Vantec **Stealth** case fans and these are
way more noisy than my GT reference fan!
2. You will almost certainly invalidate the warranty by replacing the stock
fan with a VGA Silencer. Yes, you can try to carefully put the stock fan
back, but in reality it will likely show that you have messed with it. So
if your card develops a fault of any kind, then you are probably stuffed.
So think carefully before embarking down this route. $30 may not be a lot
for a VGA Silencer, but if it means trashing a $300 card then that could
hurt.
My advice to you (the OP) would be to get a GT (nVidia reference design) and
see how you get on with it. I doubt it will be a problem for you as is. If
it is, then yes, consider a VGA Silencer, but bear in mind point 2 above.
Chip