Silent Graphics Cards?

[Toocoolforanickname]

Looking at all the GPUs, I was wondering if silent ones are any good for my new build or should I get something better? The uses I have for the video card is mostly gaming. I have a budget of ~$230 and some cards that I looked at are :

-ASUS EN7600GT SILENT/2DHT/256M
http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=2&l2=6&l3=271&model=1097&modelmenu=1
(HUGE Heatpipe & Heatsink 8O)
and

-GIGABYTE GV-NX76T256D-RH Geforce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Silent Pipe II (From Tom's Hardware Review) (takes up 2 slots )

I didn't look at any silent ATI chipsets but any recommendations are good.

Planned Build:
-Thermaltake Armor Jr Case
-Abit, Asus, or Gigabyte Core 2 Duo ready motherboard
-Pentium D 9XX (planning to upgrade to conroe after it gets cheap)

 

[cleeve]

Either/or. Boith ASUS' and Gigabyte's silent cards are good. Look at the bundles and see if either come with games you like, I think the Giugabyrte card comes with Serious Sam II.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

IIRC the ASUS wasn't very good at cooling from what I remember of the reviews.