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[willyboy]

ive gone for a 9600 Series cheapish as i play games on the PS3 but vista gives it an experience rating of 6.9

Noisy?  My PC is utterly silent, and I want to keep it that way...

Don't get an 8800GTX then...  
Not incredibly loud itself but overall my PC is quite loud and I would love a silent one haha  

Getting a MacBook soon though which will be rather good!  8-)

 

They also run far too hot & even need twin power connections just sold mine gone back to my trusty quieter/cooler 7800GTX

[willyboy]

no idea about video cards these days, used to be clued up on them when i had a decent spec PC of the age.

Now i have the xbox, i don't have the need to keep changing graphics cards (one reason i bought the xbox)

Geforce cards used to be the ones to have few years ago, last time i looked it was ATX, bet its moved on again  

You mean ATI ??  Both outfits have good performers these days but ATI drivers were always a pain in the arse  ..Nvidia  piece o' cake   to  set up  so stuck with them since selling my old ati 9800pro..

[LaserLance]

Hate to say but the best value for money in video cards are ATI ,read any of the techie computer mags and they rate the range of http://www.ebuyer.com/product/140617 these cards very highly a lot of bang for little bucks

[TheBoy]

its not reaally noisy you cant hear it over the system fans its got a thermo fan so under load hits fan speed increases but as i say its a hell of alot quieter than my old ATi Radeon 9800SE bloody turbine!

im running a zalaman cpu cooler with the standard 2 fans 1 in 1 out setup in an old Cheiftec Dragon case

Remember, my system is SILENT, so any fans would be too intrusive.

Zalman coolers too noisy for me, mainly because they use shite fans, but also poor manufacturing of the heatsink in the 3 samples I've had...

[richardirv]

If you need passive then what about something like this?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-194-SP

I rekon you'd be able to find it cheaper elsewhere though.

Prefer Nvidia personally but bang for buck ATI is better I think.

[TheBoy]

If you need passive then what about something like this?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-194-SP

I rekon you'd be able to find it cheaper elsewhere though.

Prefer Nvidia personally but bang for buck ATI is better I think.

I'd never buy another passively cooled Sapphire card again.  Had 4 of them, all be a right pain in the arse, every single one has overheated at some point, one melted its PLASTIC retention clips holding heatsink in place.


I've decided, the ATI1300 heap that is currently in there does everything I currently need it to do - as a non-gamer, a faster video card isn't really going to do much for me.  I was nearly suckered into the 'fastest is best, must get best performance figures possible' mindset, despite my needs.

My needs on my desktop, revolve around Visual Studio, so raw CPU, disk performance, and network performance are more key for me

[richardirv]

Fair play, I agree about Passive cooling. Maybe ok on a extreme low end card but anything more need fan cooling. If you don't need the hardware for gaming or blu-ray etc. Then there is no need to upgrade.

[willyboy]

Mrs willyboys pc is  one i put together with bits I had (spares) + the odd item I bought eg the Nvidia 6600gt passive cooled agp Gr crd she too liked no fan noises (if poss) well with a slow running PSu fan & cpu fan turned down low the outfit is hard to tell when it is on if screens off..
Eg 35 deg Cpu
     53-55 deg  Gpu,
Admittedly I did have Antec 550w fan & rails controllable PSU spare so  very bloomin quiet !!
My gaming pc however is a totally different kettle of fish with Straight thro' exhausts & external down pipes with ram air LOL !!!

[MindlessJD]

ive gone for a 9600 Series cheapish as i play games on the PS3 but vista gives it an experience rating of 6.9

Noisy?  My PC is utterly silent, and I want to keep it that way...

Don't get an 8800GTX then...  
Not incredibly loud itself but overall my PC is quite loud and I would love a silent one haha  

Getting a MacBook soon though which will be rather good!  8-)

 

They also run far too hot & even need twin power connections just sold mine gone back to my trusty quieter/cooler 7800GTX

True, it does get pretty hot but compared to the dual 8600GT SLI setup I had, it is really fast.

[tmx]

are NForce Chipsets on the Gay List???

if not thought about an intergrated BTX board? with an intergrated 8600/8800 or something ? complete silence then!

[semisheen]

Using MSI Geforce 8600 GT..fairly cheap and adequate for games

Think the Media Center downstairs has an 8500 in it - a LP card, passively cooled, but gets pretty warm...

8600 is also silent.Never had problems except the first installation as my mobo have an on board gpu which it doesnt like to disable

When its finished installing a load of crap, I'll see what video card is currently in there.  Had a feeling it was the onboard one you get with 965 chipsets - X3100 - but then it looks to be a plug in card  :-/



You can tell who doesn't get particularly enthused about his own PC, can't you

Thats how i feel PC's dont impress me anymore i see too much / many at work & cant be arsed with me own