Fastest video card (without fan)?

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Nobody - 17 Dec 2004 05:22 GMT

I'm trying to keep my nearly-silent system, well, nearly-silent. I'm
looking to upgrade my GeForce 440 with a faster card that can play
Half-life and Doom3 well, but looking for something quiet, preferably
without a fan.

Any experinces out there?

Athlon 2400+XP, 512MB.

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pawtomatic - 17 Dec 2004 09:04 GMT

> I'm trying to keep my nearly-silent system, well,
> nearly-silent.

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> ... looking for something quiet, preferably
> without a fan.

Unless you use a heat pipe, or have some form of liquid cooling employed,
you will not find a card without a fan that will do HL2 (or any of the newer
games).

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Christian Horn - 17 Dec 2004 13:04 GMT

I'm quite happy with my Sapphire card ATI 9600XT from
the ultimate series. Uses a heatpipe, hl2 and doom3
playable at 800x600 or 1024x768.
Nowadays there is also a card like mine with
ATI 9800pro.

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sirvoice2u@hotmail.com - 17 Dec 2004 23:54 GMT

>but looking for something quiet, preferably
> without a fan.

Lots of people aren't fans of the NVidia FX series or the PNY GeForce
cards that fall apart. I'm sure you could find one of those.

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Paul O'Neill - 18 Dec 2004 16:40 GMT

> I'm trying to keep my nearly-silent system, well, nearly-silent. I'm
> looking to upgrade my GeForce 440 with a faster card that can play
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>
> Athlon 2400+XP, 512MB

Why would anyone want to play Doom 3?

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Hank Arnold - 19 Dec 2004 09:52 GMT

Because it was fun????

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>> I'm trying to keep my nearly-silent system, well, nearly-silent. I'm
>> looking to upgrade my GeForce 440 with a faster card that can play
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> Why would anyone want to play Doom 3?

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Kai - 23 Dec 2004 23:32 GMT

Just to let you know, I'm using a GeForce 4 card and i can run Half Life 2
in the highest resolution on my LCD monitor! Looks great!! :) I havent
experienced any slow down or skipping like I did with Far Cry...maybe
because that game sucked! lol

> I'm trying to keep my nearly-silent system, well, nearly-silent. I'm
> looking to upgrade my GeForce 440 with a faster card that can play
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>
> Athlon 2400+XP, 512MB.

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teebo - 24 Dec 2004 17:15 GMT

>I'm trying to keep my nearly-silent system, well, nearly-silent. I'm
>looking to upgrade my GeForce 440 with a faster card that can play
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>
>Athlon 2400+XP, 512MB.

Without going liquid cooled, a heat pipe is about your only other
option.

http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/chipset/cl-g0009schooner/cl-g0009.htm

Teebo
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