Lørdag den 6. november 2004 15:20 skrev Daniel Walker:
Passive cooling preferred (noise = deprecated). There will be plenty of other hardware contributing to that account.
3D performance not really an issue.
My experience is, that even the twin fans on either side of my MSI branded FX5960 are more than drowned out by the main cooling fans in the rest of the box. I know this card is way outside your stated budget, but I'm just saying: even the best-cooled cards are really not what you'd call 'noisy'. Your harddrive would probably make a greater din starting up.
Agree (I'm just having the noise in mind)
The drivers are generally excellent, and will outperform all your needs, as you describe them - which would be met by one of their 64MB GeForce cards (adequate for displaying Celestia with moderately detailed planetscapes, for instance). Although these are all passive-cooled, most of them are also PCI, so make sure you have a spare slot.
Well ... I will be hunting a AGP card and as said ... it doesn't have to be top of the line. Most important is the quality of the driver and DVI/TV-out functionality so I can spoil myself with a nice big monitor/TV/DVI able device ;-)
Take it easy, Dan