Palit Outs First Passively-Cooled GTX 1650 Graphics Card

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If it's silence that you're after above all else, you may be interested in Palit's latest GT 1650 KalmX graphics card. This GPU comes with a huge passive heatsink, and while that means it won't be quite as happy to stay in boost as much as actively cooled cards, it does mean it'll be whisper quiet. No, actually, it'll be even quieter than whisper-quiet -- so quiet that you'll probably be able to hear the coil whine if you're in a quiet room.

Thankfully, the card doesn't have a very high TDP and is able to draw its maximum of 75W straight from the motherboard slot without the need for a PCI-Express power cable. Clock speeds sit at a base clock of 1485 MHz with a boost clock of 1665 MHz. That's the standard boost clock for reference Nvidia GTX 1650 cards, though how much the card will be able to hit that will depend strongly on the kind of case it's running in, how much airflow is provided from external sources, and the card's orientation. 

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