What noiseless nVidia graphics card should I get for my new 64bit box in the € 100 range
It's not for gaming only serious work. DVI / TV-OUT would be nice so I could work floating on the sofa ;-) (Then I would like the playing field to be a little bigger :D) Passive cooling preferred (noise = deprecated). There will be plenty of other hardware contributing to that account. 3D performance not really an issue. Good resolution in console mode would be nice (I have no idea how well nVidia drivers do whatsoever). Your experience would be highly appreciated. Johan
On Saturday 06 November 2004 10:08, Johan Nielsen wrote:
It's not for gaming only serious work.
DVI / TV-OUT would be nice so I could work floating on the sofa ;-) (Then I would like the playing field to be a little bigger :D)
Passive cooling preferred (noise = deprecated). There will be plenty of other hardware contributing to that account.
3D performance not really an issue.
Good resolution in console mode would be nice (I have no idea how well nVidia drivers do whatsoever).
Your experience would be highly appreciated.
Johan I have two Nvidia cards in my machine, one is a fx5200 AGP and the other is a Geforce2 PCI card. These cards a slightly old now and the fans have failed with age. I have simply replaced the fans with Zalman passive cooling heatsinks, hence no noise. As I don't do much gaming the cards don't generate too much heat and the heatsinks can just about cope. I also use a Zalman cooler on the CPU as I found this to be much quieter than the stock AMD heatsink and fan.
David -- David Bottrill david@bottrill.org www.bottrill.org Registered Linux user number 330730 Internet SIP Phone: 1-747-244-2699
Lørdag den 6. november 2004 11:37 skrev David Bottrill:
On Saturday 06 November 2004 10:08, Johan Nielsen wrote:
It's not for gaming only serious work.
DVI / TV-OUT would be nice so I could work floating on the sofa ;-) (Then I would like the playing field to be a little bigger :D)
Passive cooling preferred (noise = deprecated). There will be plenty of other hardware contributing to that account.
3D performance not really an issue.
Good resolution in console mode would be nice (I have no idea how well nVidia drivers do whatsoever).
Your experience would be highly appreciated.
Johan
I have two Nvidia cards in my machine, one is a fx5200 AGP and the other is a Geforce2 PCI card. These cards a slightly old now and the fans have failed with age. I have simply replaced the fans with Zalman passive cooling heatsinks, hence no noise. As I don't do much gaming the cards don't generate too much heat and the heatsinks can just about cope. I also use a Zalman cooler on the CPU as I found this to be much quieter than the stock AMD heatsink and fan.
Ehm ... just for the fun of it .... you do have a fan on top of the CPU-cooler right ?? ;-) What about DVI/TV-out functionality ???
David
-- David Bottrill
david@bottrill.org www.bottrill.org Registered Linux user number 330730 Internet SIP Phone: 1-747-244-2699
On Saturday 06 November 2004 11:06, Johan Nielsen wrote:
Lørdag den 6. november 2004 11:37 skrev David Bottrill:
On Saturday 06 November 2004 10:08, Johan Nielsen wrote:
It's not for gaming only serious work.
DVI / TV-OUT would be nice so I could work floating on the sofa ;-) (Then I would like the playing field to be a little bigger :D)
Passive cooling preferred (noise = deprecated). There will be plenty of other hardware contributing to that account.
3D performance not really an issue.
Good resolution in console mode would be nice (I have no idea how well nVidia drivers do whatsoever).
Your experience would be highly appreciated.
Johan
I have two Nvidia cards in my machine, one is a fx5200 AGP and the other is a Geforce2 PCI card. These cards a slightly old now and the fans have failed with age. I have simply replaced the fans with Zalman passive cooling heatsinks, hence no noise. As I don't do much gaming the cards don't generate too much heat and the heatsinks can just about cope. I also use a Zalman cooler on the CPU as I found this to be much quieter than the stock AMD heatsink and fan.
Ehm ... just for the fun of it .... you do have a fan on top of the CPU-cooler right ?? ;-)
What about DVI/TV-out functionality ???
My primary card has DVI and Video out, I use DVI on my LCD, haven't tried the TV capability. An yes the Zalman heatsink has a large integral fan with a speed controller. Zalman heatsinks and fans are well recommended. David -- David Bottrill david@bottrill.org www.bottrill.org Registered Linux user number 330730 Internet SIP Phone: 1-747-244-2699
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.
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. Take it easy, Dan
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
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