Passively cooled graphic card

[Ookami]

Hello.

As I want to upgrade my PC, I'm looking for a passively cooled GPU for the AGP slot.

It's 3D capabilities should be much better than my current one (I have an Geforce 4 Ti 4200) and it should have at least two outputs (e.g. one DVI and one VGA).

Thanks for your comments and suggestions, in advance!

Cheers,

Mijo

[foxyshadis]

I can't say for sure, but your best bet is probably the various passive GeForce 7600 GT, which is a very new mid-range (but quite powerful) card with an enormous heat sink block on it, or even the passive 7800 GT from ASUS, but that's dual DVI only. Older cards are actually often much hotter than current generation ones, so it's hard to find one while saving some dough unless you want a serious perf cut.

ATI cards are typically much hotter, I haven't heard of passive current-gen ones beyond low-end ones but maybe they're out there.

Of course mobile cards would be great for the purpose, being small and very low heat output, but they're expensive and good luck ever finding a desktop card with one built-in.

[CWR03]

All the dual-DVI output cards I've seen will come with at least one DVI-to-VGA adaptor, so that needn't be a concern.

[Ookami]

Hello.

Thanks for your answers.

Since a few weeks I use a TFT with digital in anyway, so two DVI outs shouldn't be a problem, altough I don't like to be bound to one way out ;-) .

foxyshadis, a quick google search only found me lots of PCI-Express cards, but not one AGP for the models you've mentioned. But I'll keep on looking...

If any of you have a exact model they would recommend, please share it with me.

Thanks alot...

Cheers,

Mijo

[Sirber]

look on ASUS website. Some of their card are noiseless.

[Ookami]

Hello.

Thanks again for all of your answers.

It's pretty hard to find passively cooled AGP GPUs but with the help of the people at my PC shop I've bought this one: Gigabyte GV-N66256DP .

A nice review can be found here:

http://htpcnews.com/main.php?id=6600agp_1

Cheers,

Mijo