hi there, i'm about to buy me a whole new pc and i'm currently quite unsure which graphic card i should buy, since the 9800gtx only costs about 40dollars more than the cheapest 8800gts 512 (i'm from switzerland, so the prices are a bit different, the cheapest 8800gts in switzrland costs still about 300dollars) i thought i would prefer the 9800gtx. after reading through several reviews, some mentioned that the 9800gtx is quite loud and i'm really into silent pc's.
quote from the review: "More than likely, the high fan speeds come from the driver, but there's not much chance that Nvidia will make any change. The high level of cooling is probably necessary in order to make sure that a maximum number of GPUs will stand up to the 9800 GTX' high frequencies."
now the question for me is, since the 40 dollars the 9800gtx costs more, doesn't really matter to me, but unfortunately noise does, would you recommend buying the 8800gts or still the 9800gtx and reduce the fan speed manually (which will reduce to performance?)? i'm quite torn between the two, the noise warning is a little bit a turn off but 10% more performance for 40dollars is also nice. Perhaps there are few people possessing the 9800gtx who could further comment the noise topic.
quote from the review: "More than likely, the high fan speeds come from the driver, but there's not much chance that Nvidia will make any change. The high level of cooling is probably necessary in order to make sure that a maximum number of GPUs will stand up to the 9800 GTX' high frequencies."
now the question for me is, since the 40 dollars the 9800gtx costs more, doesn't really matter to me, but unfortunately noise does, would you recommend buying the 8800gts or still the 9800gtx and reduce the fan speed manually (which will reduce to performance?)? i'm quite torn between the two, the noise warning is a little bit a turn off but 10% more performance for 40dollars is also nice. Perhaps there are few people possessing the 9800gtx who could further comment the noise topic.