Passively cool card? Or very quiet card?

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Can anyone recomend a pasive cooled or very quiet AGP card? I have on of
those cube PCs and the AGP card is about 4 times louder than the cpu / psu
fans. Its a Geforce 4 Ti4200, 128MB, so i would like to upgrade if posible
if not a similar spec card that doesnt sound like a hairdryer would be fine.
I read somwhere that ATI card need less cooling that Nvidia, hence why I am
asking here.

thanks,

chris

 

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"chris jones" <b@gger.off> wrote in message
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> Can anyone recomend a pasive cooled or very quiet AGP card? I have on of
> those cube PCs and the AGP card is about 4 times louder than the cpu / psu
> fans. Its a Geforce 4 Ti4200, 128MB, so i would like to upgrade if posible
> if not a similar spec card that doesnt sound like a hairdryer would be
fine.
> I read somwhere that ATI card need less cooling that Nvidia, hence why I
am
> asking here.

Sapphire makes a line of fanless, silent 9800XT, 9800 Pro and 9600XT. The
link below is to the 9800 Pro version. Nothing else in this class of card is
silent or fanless.

http://www.sapphiretech.com/vga/aiw-9800pro-ult.asp

 

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chris jones wrote:

> Can anyone recomend a pasive cooled or very quiet AGP card? I have on of
> those cube PCs and the AGP card is about 4 times louder than the cpu / psu
> fans. Its a Geforce 4 Ti4200, 128MB, so i would like to upgrade if posible
> if not a similar spec card that doesnt sound like a hairdryer would be
> fine. I read somwhere that ATI card need less cooling that Nvidia, hence
> why I am asking here.

If you're happy with your Ti4200 except for the noise just put a passive
cooler on it. Zalman ZM-80C-HP should work fine for about 30 bucks.

An ATI with performance similar to your Ti4200 would take about the same
amount of cooling.

> thanks,
>
> chris

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J. Clarke wrote:

> chris jones wrote:
>
>>Can anyone recomend a pasive cooled or very quiet AGP card? I have on of
>>those cube PCs and the AGP card is about 4 times louder than the cpu / psu
>>fans. Its a Geforce 4 Ti4200, 128MB, so i would like to upgrade if posible
>>if not a similar spec card that doesnt sound like a hairdryer would be
>>fine. I read somwhere that ATI card need less cooling that Nvidia, hence
>>why I am asking here.
>
>
> If you're happy with your Ti4200 except for the noise just put a passive
> cooler on it. Zalman ZM-80C-HP should work fine for about 30 bucks.
>
> An ATI with performance similar to your Ti4200 would take about the same
> amount of cooling.

I think a Radeon 9600 non-pro (128 bit memory bus) should be roughly
equivalent, depending on FSAA/AF settings. If you have the money you can
of course get an "ultimate edition" from sapphire with Zalman cooler.

André