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Hi, can any of you guys recommend a graphics card that fits the following requirements please:

1. Silent - No sound from the card AT ALL!
2. Dual DVI
3. nVidia chipset
4. Supports resolutions of 1920 x 1200 and 1600 x 1200.

This card is for my linux machine that sits in the living room - hence why it needs to be a silent card. I've been hunting around on various stores for the past hour - you wouldn't believe how difficult it is to determine if a card is silent or not.

The specifications don't need to be high at all since it's for a development machine and not for games.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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Cool, thanks for the response. I only really want to spend $50 USD on the card.

Reply to keiron

Ah you no mention no price limits, ok a little harder for that price range to get dual DVI and play near those resolutions, unless you're just looking for 2D support at 19x12,

Can you swing $89?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814150170

Otherwise you need to find an old GF6600 or GF6800 for cheap, or get one of the ones I listed off eBay.

Best to get a GF7600GT or better if you're looking for any kind of HW HD video acceleration in the future.

Reply to TheGreatGrapeApe

Thanks TheGreatGrapeApe.

I was a bit tired last night and what I mean't to say was the limit was $100 USD. I'm working in GBP and my limit is set to £50.

I have 2 machines; windows and linux. My linux machine has had an X800 card in it for ages because it is dual port. This means my windows machine has some really naff 1 port card in it that can't play any decent games. The plan is to buy a reasonably cheap 2 port dual DVI card for the linux machine and then move the X800 back into the windows machine so I can play games again :)

Then I'm going to need to replace the X800 with a silent solution because at the moment, it's the only thing that causes noise from my pcs.

Reply to keiron

Hi,

I've found this card:

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Produ [...] ctID=13780

My only reservation is that there is 1 DVI and 1 VGA port. Since both my monitors have VGA connectors anyway, and the article says it supports dual monitors, should this worry me?

Reply to keiron

Well if you monitors are VGA/DB-15 anyways, then it doesn't matter, DVI carries both signals so you can support 2 VGA monitors no problemo on that card.

Personally I'd say pay ~£1 less and get a better card (90mhz faster core) from Overclockers;
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/show [...] =GX-082-LT

Still only DVI+VGA, but looks like that's not that important to you. There's also the GT for £89 which is dual DVI, but that's a good chunk of money more.

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