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upgrade gts450 (silent)

cowello

cowello

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Hi guys.

I have a palit GTS 450 card. Is about a year and a half old... 1GB ddr5 so it does the job for most things. I think the fan is starting to wear out as it occasionally starts to click/flicker.

I have a near silent rig....noctua D14 cooler with NF-F12 fans on low speed cooling an i5 2500K @4.5Ghz. corsair AX850 PSU. Corsair 120GB force 3 GT ssd etc. All in an antec 1200

Whats a reasonably priced GPU which won't sound like a jet. Physical size doesnt matter.

price wise i'd have 100-150 pounds maybe, dont need a stupidly powerful thing.
 
It depends on how powerful you want your card to be.
Here is a passive ATI HD 6850. Its just under your budget limit and it has a no-fan design so it's silent.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-145-PC&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=
Generally look for passive cards for guaranteed silence (or as close as you can get). Vapor-X and DirectCU cards are also pretty quiet. They use hybrid liquid cooling with fans. Here's a cheaper nVidia card using DirectCU
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-265-AS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1576
Nvidia usually have worse value for money at the lower end but this is quite good for a quiet card. Otherwise you could maybe buy something with a bit of power so when you use it normally it would be quiet. Fan speeds increase when the card has to work harder (for things like games or video editing).
 
thanks....ill take a look at those options...i'd probably end up trying to direct some air using a silent fan with a passive cooler anyway so may aswell go for a fan model which isnt too noisy
 
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