Whats the best Nividia card with a heat sink instead of a fan ?

[Johnick]

Ive seen a few 64mb agp GF2's with big heat sinks instead of fans, whats the best Nividia card with a heat sink instead of a fan.

[fishybawb]

Some of the FX5200s make do with passive cooling only. Check out the Inno3d Tornado if you're going to get one :cool:

[Optimus Prime]

You can get heatsinks/heat pipe's from other companies that make CPU coolers.

You have to glue them on though :cool:

[Johnick]

Originally posted by Optimus Prime
You can get heatsinks/heat pipe's from other companies that make CPU coolers.

You have to glue them on though :cool:

I know, but ill only make an *** of that :) .Id rather buy one with a heat sink on it from the get go.

[bob05]

The Gainwood Geforce FX 5200 8X AGP is the best one that has only a heat sink:

http://www.gainward.cc/gwnewsite/marketing/boxshots/JPG/GFFX/0802-C.jpg

http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=815212/search=5200/ut=42488364f51ccdeb

and its fairly cheap too! :D

[RamonGTP]

Just curious, why you looking for a card with no fan? Noise issue?

[zybch]

I think wanting to run with no fan is just some strange way of adding the ultimate case MOD to your PC.

Remember thise little kiddie ovens that were powered by a light bulb? You could cook a cupcake in only 3 hours!!!

Well just expand that idea a little and you logically come to "The PC Oven", powered by a fanless GF4-MX.

So, after the PC crashes for the umpteenth time, you can sit back with a semi-cooked muffin and reflect on how your PC makes windows 3.1 look stable.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

FX5200, its not the greatest performing card abbout like :(

--Jakk:t

[fishybawb]

Originally posted by Bigjakkstaffa
FX5200, its not the greatest performing card abbout like :(


True, but it ain't bad for us moderate gamers on a budget. Their £65 asking price is Radeon 9000 country, and a decent 5200 will out perform them. Mine cost £50, so I couldn't pass it up :)

[Johnick]

Originally posted by RamonGTP
Just curious, why you looking for a card with no fan? Noise issue?

Yes, that and the fact that i know too many peeps who have had cards with fans that died.

PS thanks for the link bob05 ;), but my mobo only supports up to 4x agp :( (sorry, forgot to mention that).Any other ideas ?.

[bob05]

Originally posted by Johnick


Yes, that and the fact that i know too many peeps who have had cards with fans that died.

PS thanks for the link bob05 ;), but my mobo only supports up to 4x agp :( (sorry, forgot to mention that).Any other ideas ?.

an AGP 8x card should work just fine in a AGP 4x slot.

But if you want a AGP 4x card, the best one is the Geforce 4 MX 440. There are to versions: the 64 meg and the 128 meg (DDR). The 64 meg is only $28 (:eek:) and the 128 meg is $40.95. I personally reccomend the 128 meg but both are cheap and will give you fine performance.

The 128 meg: http://216.136.224.156/hoct12/apge4mx4xddr.html

The 64 meg: http://216.136.224.156/hoct12/1191.html

The Pic (both 64 meg and 128 meg look the same): http://store5.yimg.com/I/hoct12_1747_1991413

[Bigjakkstaffa]

I would take the fx5200, its bad enough to start with, nevermind the Gf4 mx series :eek:

--Jakk:t

[iceblue]

Originally posted by Johnick
PS thanks for the link bob05 ;), but my mobo only supports up to 4x agp :( (sorry, forgot to mention that).Any other ideas ?.
an 8x card will work on a 4x mobo.

edit: ya beat me to it.

[bob05]

Originally posted by Bigjakkstaffa
I would take the fx5200, its bad enough to start with, nevermind the Gf4 mx series :eek:

--Jakk:t

The MX440 isnt the best but it does beat out the Geforce Ti, Geforce 2 Ultra, and the Radeon 7500 (and depending on the test even the Radeon 9000 :eek: ).

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Call me snooty, but by my standards the ti4200 is getting too slow ;)

--Jakk:t

[cdrudy]

Ya know, I picked up a 5200 FX, plugged it in, and decided that I'd return it. All those reviewers were right! I actually think that it was slowing my system down, compared to my GForce2:rolleyes: . Sure the FX has directX 9 support, but it runs so slow that it's not worth it.

[Peter M]

Midrange Radeons have much lower power consumption (and thus heat dissipation) than NVidia's offerings. There are plenty quite decent fanless Radeon 9600 cards.

[tech-noo]

cdruddy is it that bad.
i can get the radeon 9200 or the fx5200 for £55
i waS wondering which is better.
the fx5200 is worth more. im getting a good deal.
but still has it got that bad reviews.

[iceblue]

cdrudy might not have enough cpu juice to power the card. the geforceFX5200 is a budget card. those reviewers made it sound like it was designed to be top-of-the-line. it performs very well for what it was designed for. in fact it outperforms the competing budget agp cards in its range.

[ConfusedAlien]

zalman.

nuff said

lol i always wanted to say that right BPB?:D

[cdrudy]

Well... I don't think that CPU juice was an issue, I'm running a AMD 2400+ XP on a ASUS A7v8x , 512mb 3200 DDR RAM, 400w PS, WD 80 GB 7200 8mb cache HD, and now... an ATI 9800 PRO 128 video card (in an 8X AGP slot).

Heres what I noticed about the GForce...
It performs as well as you can expect for what you pay for. Windows ran just fine at 1600x1200, and I didn't notice any real loss while just running normal programs, It wasn't until I hit up some graphic intensive progs that I noticed that the card wasn't performing as I hoped. running Games at 1024x768 was the only way that I was getting frame rates to make me happy, (and I'm not that picky).
heres some of the benchmarking reviews off of Toms Hardware (www.tomshardware.com (http://www.tomshardware.com) ). Note that this is the 5200 Ultra.
http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030311/images/image012.gif
I know, I know, it's 3dMark 2003...

I would recommend checking the full article out if you haven't already...
NVIDIA GeForceFX 5600 Ultra&FX 5200 Ultra - Performance (http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030311/index.html)

edit: Hmm, my benchmark picture went away. Oh well, I would recomend the link.