graphics card price?

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GT said:
Is £80 a good price for a new AGP Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB card?
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And can I replace the fan on it with a silent heatsink - maybe heatpipe
device? (I have plenty of silent case cooling).
 
And can I replace the fan on it with a silent heatsink - maybe heatpipe
device? (I have plenty of silent case cooling).
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Depends on how you achieved your silent case cooling. If
there is significant airflow reduction the heatpipe and
other passive 'sinks aren't going to work nearly as well.
However, IF you want to go that route you can put a fan on
the side panel or on an internal bracket and just run it at
very low, inaudible speed.
 
kony said:
Depends on how you achieved your silent case cooling. If
there is significant airflow reduction the heatpipe and
other passive 'sinks aren't going to work nearly as well.
However, IF you want to go that route you can put a fan on
the side panel or on an internal bracket and just run it at
very low, inaudible speed.
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I have carefully designed my airflow. My CPU is undervolted to reduce power
and heat. I have replaced all fans and heatsinks. I have ducts and 3 fans
(undervolted for silence) directing air around. Air is drawn in by 1 fan,
pointed at the graphics card and is also sucked in over the hard disk,
through the 3 grilled 3.5" bays at the front, air then floats around for a
bit, then is drawn over the motherboard heatsink and through the zalman
flower CPU heatsink and out a custom 'hole' in the back. I have a silent PSU
which also sucks air out, so a heatpipe and heatsink option would be fine
for any graphics card (within reason). Only noise I have right now is the
hard disk and that is a Samsung Spinpoint - known for being very quiet. I
also run CPU Idle to keep the processor cool when not gaming.
 
And can I replace the fan on it with a silent heatsink - maybe heatpipe
device? (I have plenty of silent case cooling).
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Let's see, 80 BP is roughly $170 Canadian, which is about right (the
exchange rate might be off, and there might be local pricing factors,
as it's actually on the low side compared to local prices).

If the video card is a typical ATI reference design, then there are
all sorts of aftermarket cooling kits that will fit on it. The only
gotcha that you have to remember is that pulling off the stock cooler
and slapping on a fancy aftermarket one will spontaneously kill the
warranty. If you can't deal with that risk, leave it be. The stock
ATI fans are usually pretty quiet though.
 
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