Passive Graphics card Q?

flatface

looking for a quiet or passive graphic card (not for gaming) from an irish supplier (so the company pays ) believe gigabyte do a passive range but cant find them here. If someone knows a supplier i have missed please link.
PS I did trawl the sticky.

popey21

flatface wrote:

looking for a quiet or passive graphic card (not for gaming) from an irish supplier (so the company pays ) believe gigabyte do a passive range but cant find them here. If someone knows a supplier i have missed please link.
PS I did trawl the sticky.

when you say passive graphic card do you mean with out a fan ,just a heatsink . would the lower radeon range from http://www.marxcomputers.ie do Radeon 9550SE 128MB , Radeon 9250 128MB, Radeon 7000 64MB

flatface

Hi,

preferably a PCI-express fanless one with a heatsink with a 6600
otherwise a lower spec one as you suggested - they dont often indicate which ones are quiet. am i right in guessing anything less than 6600 wont sound like a hairdrier?

fast enough chip to play a little HalfLife but mostly for 2d graphics with 2 monitors

Khannie

I'm guessing you mean Half Life 2

I reckon you'll be doing well to get a quiet card off the shelf that will play HL2 (experience suggests that a 6600 will need a fan of some sort). You could search for suppliers that sell cards with arctic coolers pre-attached though they may be hard to find.

if you're willing to put on an arctic cooler yourself, then the world's your oyster. It will make almost any mid-range card very quiet at stock speeds.

Alternatively, you could underclock any graphics card and try passive cooling with a large heatsink then.

hitide.ie do lots of fancy cooling equipment.

Explosive_Cornflake

I have a passive 9800 pro. It's a sapphire. It's a zalman cooler on it, it's a beast. Might have some pics somewhere.

flatface

Great card! but much for my needs though
- will try to silence a 6600 myself perhaps.
Thanks for the link hadn't checked out the hitide.ie stuff. - quite fancy their
Be Quiet! PSU

K!LL!@N

Khannie wrote:

I'm guessing you mean Half Life 2

I reckon you'll be doing well to get a quiet card off the shelf that will play HL2 (experience suggests that a 6600 will need a fan of some sort). You could search for suppliers that sell cards with arctic coolers pre-attached though they may be hard to find.

if you're willing to put on an arctic cooler yourself, then the world's your oyster. It will make almost any mid-range card very quiet at stock speeds.

Alternatively, you could underclock any graphics card and try passive cooling with a large heatsink then.

hitide.ie do lots of fancy cooling equipment.

Now, now Khannie, my 9800 runs HL2 just fine. :oP
It's the same one as Explosive_Cornflake posted, Sapphire Radeon 9800 Ultimate Edition, i believe.
Perhaps it's my imagination but it does seem slightly slower than my previous 9800, which i replaced with the original one died.
The original was a Powercolor and had a tiny little heatsink and fan which died after a good days gaming.
Have had no problem with the Sapphire and it's obviously completely silent.
Would probably benefit from an extra case fan at the front of my case.
I currently only run 1 large case fan, and it's fine.

I don't know how the 6600's compare to the 9800's.
But i'd imagine they're around the same price these days.

Can only vouch for the 9800's.
They're pretty decent, though starting to show their age a little now.

Killian

Explosive_Cornflake

Yup, same as yours killian.
I have a side panel fan blowing in on it, but i've turned that off until i 7v it.
I changed from my stock heatsink, so i have a 40mm fan sitting on top if it also.
All just for safety.
ATM its running with 120mm extraction and PSU and thats all my air flow.
Want a quiet 92 mm for front and i'll be happy.

Khannie

K!LL!@N wrote:

Now, now Khannie, my 9800 runs HL2 just fine.

Hehe. WB! Get onto unreal.ie killbot.

I did mean 9800pro or thereabouts when I said "mid-range", though I suppose they're low end now. Sheez. Didn't think you'd be able to passively cool one of them I have to admit, having burned myself badly by touching the stock heatsink