Passively cooled card with dual DVI - suggestions please

[smartpc]

My graphics card died so i'm looking to replace it. I'd like a fanless pcie one, so its quiet but i have two monitors so it needs to have dual DVI outputs. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Oh and i play a few pc games, but nothing too heavy. I'm more of a playstation gamer.

Thanks in advance!

 

[CBJ]

Take a look at the Sapphire Radeon 4670 Passive. It's not what you'd call a high-end gaming part, but it's about the fastest I've seen that's passively cooled. The cooler looks like it takes up a fair amount of space, though, and you'd need to make sure the hot air inside the case was being moved somehow. It only has one DVI output but it does have an HDMI one too, which you use directly if your monitor has HDMI input or stick an adapter on to convert it to DVI if not.

 

[PermaBanned]

It's pointless really though, even with good case cooling it's much better to get something that simply puts out less noise than your case fans. The HIS IceQ 4 version of the aforementioned card is brilliant.

 

[wsh]

You sure you dont want a AGP card? I thought your motherboard supported AGP rather than PCIe.

 

[smartpc]

You sure you dont want a AGP card? I thought your motherboard supported AGP rather than PCIe.

Yep your right, its AGP! So that cuts down the choices by quite a bit.

 

[CBJ]

In that case your options are even more limited if you really want to go with the passive option. For example there is this Asus 3650 Vcool Silent but it's even slower than the 4650 and by the looks of things doesn't have dual DVI.

All in all I think you've boxed yourself into a corner with those requirements. Probably the biggest limiting factor is the AGP as there are hardly any even remotely decent cards around for this, but passive cooling isn't exactly easy to come by either and combining the two seriously limits your options. I think you're going to have to compromise somewhere along the line!

 

[smartpc]

I'll take a look at reviews of that asus card. Ive just seen the specs and it does have dual DVI, so it may be the one for me.