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Fanless VGA Card
- Thread starter pcknight
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from my experience mid to high end gpus need some sort of cooling. Passivley cooled cards just dont cut it if your gaming for an hour or more.i use to have a gigabyte 6600gt and after 40min or so it would hit temps of 98*C and the game would start stuttering.
The card also warmed up my case by sometimes as much as 10-12*C which meant i had to turn my case fans up to cool the case and the hdd's. So all in all y rig got noiser not quieter which kind of sucked as i got the card to reduce noise.
This time im going to get a mid to high end gpu and watercool it (zalman res2). This way i can have my 1 case fan run at 5V 600rpm which should bring the system noise to around 19dB
The card also warmed up my case by sometimes as much as 10-12*C which meant i had to turn my case fans up to cool the case and the hdd's. So all in all y rig got noiser not quieter which kind of sucked as i got the card to reduce noise.
This time im going to get a mid to high end gpu and watercool it (zalman res2). This way i can have my 1 case fan run at 5V 600rpm which should bring the system noise to around 19dB
I bought the fanless Leadtek 7600GS and I fitted a VF700 within two weeks as the heatsink was far too hot. The VF700 only needs to be run at 5V to keep the 7600 cool so it doesn't really contribute significantly to the overall noise.
Jonathan
Jonathan