Passively cool card? Or very quiet card?

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Can anyone recomend a pasive cooled or very quiet AGP card? I have on of
those cube PCs and the AGP card is about 4 times louder than the cpu / psu
fans. Its a Geforce 4 Ti4200, 128MB, so i would like to upgrade if posible
if not a similar spec card that doesnt sound like a hairdryer would be fine.
I read somwhere that ATI card need less cooling that Nvidia, hence why I am
asking here.

thanks,

chris
 
chris jones said:
Can anyone recomend a pasive cooled or very quiet AGP card? I have on of
those cube PCs and the AGP card is about 4 times louder than the cpu / psu
fans. Its a Geforce 4 Ti4200, 128MB, so i would like to upgrade if posible
if not a similar spec card that doesnt sound like a hairdryer would be fine.
I read somwhere that ATI card need less cooling that Nvidia, hence why I am
asking here.
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Sapphire makes a line of fanless, silent 9800XT, 9800 Pro and 9600XT. The
link below is to the 9800 Pro version. Nothing else in this class of card is
silent or fanless.

http://www.sapphiretech.com/vga/aiw-9800pro-ult.asp
 
chris said:
Can anyone recomend a pasive cooled or very quiet AGP card? I have on of
those cube PCs and the AGP card is about 4 times louder than the cpu / psu
fans. Its a Geforce 4 Ti4200, 128MB, so i would like to upgrade if posible
if not a similar spec card that doesnt sound like a hairdryer would be
fine. I read somwhere that ATI card need less cooling that Nvidia, hence
why I am asking here.
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If you're happy with your Ti4200 except for the noise just put a passive
cooler on it. Zalman ZM-80C-HP should work fine for about 30 bucks.

An ATI with performance similar to your Ti4200 would take about the same
amount of cooling.
 
J. Clarke said:
If you're happy with your Ti4200 except for the noise just put a passive
cooler on it. Zalman ZM-80C-HP should work fine for about 30 bucks.

An ATI with performance similar to your Ti4200 would take about the same
amount of cooling.
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I think a Radeon 9600 non-pro (128 bit memory bus) should be roughly
equivalent, depending on FSAA/AF settings. If you have the money you can
of course get an "ultimate edition" from sapphire with Zalman cooler.

André
 
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