Quiet Graphics Card

If you'd rather sell your current card and just get a new one here's a list of alternatives:

https://geizhals.eu/?cat=gra16_512&bpmax=250&v=e&hloc=at&hloc=de&hloc=pl&hloc=uk&hloc=eu&sort=t&bl1_id=30&xf=11555_2~5587_80~9816_03+04+15+-+GTX+1650

If you DEMAND quiet there’s the ASUS Noctua 3070

Is not cheep but is whisper whisper

It’s literally bigger than my 6950 XT, which is a 2.5 slot boi; this is 4 hecking slots of heat sink and cooling

he even plugs a 1650 up next to it in the video. The size comparison is gas

His board is noisy because it's a board with low height and that limits the board to small fans: it has 2x50mm fans. The OP is complaining about the noise, so we can conclude that the fans are revving up to keep up with the heat generation. I guess that 2x50mm fans are just not enough to cool the RTX1650 gpu. That's why I selected boards with 2x80mm fans or larger, in that link.

You don't need to set anything; the card simply won't turn on the fans until it hits a predetermined temperature (usually 50-60C).

Should've clarified; on a GPU with a zero-RPM mode, the fans won't turn on until it gets hot, e.g. while gaming.

That's for legacy BIOS and controls the video output in the bios only.

Cheap graphics cards run DC input fans with have a minimum voltage and run all the time. Usually with smaller louder fans. Better cards would have PWM fans and are capable of running 0RPM but you would have to research each card to be sure of this.

A lot also depends on your setup. You can put the coldest/quietest GPU in a case with no airflow and get the same result, a GPU with noisy fans. Virtually none of the AIBs use silent fan designs. The ultimate determinate is the temperature delta gradient between the hotspot on the card and the cold spot (the heat sink). If your GPU is swimming in hot stale air it’s going to rev it’s heart out looking for any pocket of cool air in your case. Once the heat sink is soaked your hot spot heat has nowhere to go.

For a low/short profile GPU, the physical size constraint over other cards with the same chipset means you’ll never run more powerfully or more quietly, it’s not necessarily about the size of the fans pitching up their frequency relative to a 120mm fan but the lack of extra thermal capacitance from a larger heat sink and smaller surface area for forced air convection, means they have to spin at significantly higher top speeds to get the job done.