Derek
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Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:11 am Post subject:
Re: QUIETEST hi-performance PCI-E card? |
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milleron wrote:
| Quote: | darius wrote:
What is they QUIETEST high performance PCI-E card I can get?
I know Gigabyte has a fanless 6600GT and 6800GT, but they seem
overpriced.
I'm looking for something not necessarily fanless but known to be
quiet and gives good price/performance ratio.
My CPU is PENTIUM 4 PRESCOTT DT, 520. 2.8Ghz. Not exactly a
screamer, so I'm not looking to go top of the line for video, just
something I can run current games like battlefield 2 and quake 4 at
decent fps.
thanks.
Well, Gigabyte also makes a fanless Radeon X800XL. It's a 256MB card
with 16 pixel pipelines (like the 850XT), and 256-bit memory interface.
It costs only $255, and it's literally silent. This is a great
price/performance ratio (another way of saying "value"). I'm not an
authority on CPU - video card matching, but I don't think the X800XL's
performance would go to waste in your 520 machine. By the way, the
Gigabyte X800XL is a beautiful piece of hardware if you're enough of a
geek to have fun appreciating a card's appearance as well as its
performance :-).
Your question was what is the quietest high-performance card. This one
is definitely the quietest, but I don't know if it meets your criteria
for "high-performance." Since you risk being limited by your CPU, it
may be the highest performing card that it makes sense to put in there.
Ron
Also Sapphire has an X800 GTO Ultimate that is completely fanless. |
Reasonable price too - about $243 Cdn. |
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