By the way, how about the Zotac Zbox EN760 ? It has a graphic card comparable to the GTX 750 and it is tiny. Seems exactly like what you are looking for. A gaming laptop in a small desktop case. Idle noise and power consumption shouldn't be too bad. It's even reported to be quiet during gaming. For...

Nowadays you can have either a quiet, powerful rig, or a quiet, small rig. You can't have a system which is small, quiet and powerful at the same time (I will consider the presence of any discrete graphics with a TDP comparable to a CPU one as indicative of a "powerful" rig). By the way, how about ...

Nowadays you can have either a quiet, powerful rig, or a quiet, small rig. You can't have a system which is small, quiet and powerful at the same time (I will consider the presence of any discrete graphics with a TDP comparable to a CPU one as indicative of a "powerful" rig). Well I managed to get ...

Zerocore has its issues right? If it was uncomplicated, I'm pretty sure it would be done already. I don't know. How can we tell if it's not working because of wrong design or because of external factors (PEBKAC ?). For instance lot of people use HDMI, and the reason why zerocore is not working well...

And honestly, if in your long-idle, when you spend hours away from the PC, why should it run doing nothing in the first place? We are going a little off-topic, but well. You have 2 approaches here: 1) Consider that a gaming PC can do more things than gaming, but less efficiently. For instance you c...

Today I would probably go with a non-low profile GTX 750 Ti, slap a passive cooler on it and call it a day. What about the semi-passive (nice buzzword isn't it ?) non-low profile ASUS Stryx GTX 750 Ti ? It seems to be a nice compromise. But well for gaming I am more interested in games with big thi...

You can't compare a 7750 to a 750TI because the 750TI renders three times faster. Games that will run on the Nvidia would shurely have to be drilled down to get similar frame rates on a 7750. I have never said that the 7750 can be compared to 750 Ti (I own a 750 Ti). I specifically said that the 77...

How hard have you tried to make it work ? To be fair, I didn't care too much as it was not on my priorities: all I have done is to set up a fan profile which slow down to inaudible levels the fans. But that's possible because there were substantially sized heatsinks (which a low profile card can't ...

Currently I have 3 HD7000 in my builds (2 7850, 1 7770) from two different vendors (ASUS, XFX), and I'm evaluating an XFX R9. No one (with stock vbios) stops the fan at idle (I can't say whether mine are long or normal idlings), despite of zerocore, and they all have big heatsinks. For what's my ex...

I am specifically interested in behavior at idle, not during gaming (in fact I use "idle" in almost everyone of my sentences in this topic...). I don't know whether my english isn't enough good, but you just didn't understand: I was explicitly speaking about your requirement, so no gaming noise or ...

So far I haven't found a good enough low profile graphic card for my use : good performance for gaming (Battlefield at medium/high for instance) + good behavior at idle. Because such a card cannot exist: the heatsink will be too much tiny (so the fan should spin fast). I am specifically interested ...

Lone industries L2. http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1810890 That's what I would go to. Really small case made for the 750ti LP (galaxy, zotac or uppcoming gigabyte). Perhaps you haven't understood the problem or the title ? It was not about the case but about the graphic card. So far I haven'...

There are very few low profile cards able to game, and those are not quiet, so one has to give, your call. Fan noise during gaming is not a problem (except for horror games ;-) ). Only the noise at idle bothers me (and power consumption at idle). The KFA2 GTX 750 Ti low profile is almost the perfec...

Then wait for the Asus GTX750TI strix, it will be passive at idle and ramp up after certain temperature, on the GTX780 Strics was 60C. Or wait for the Pali GTX750Ti that will be fully passive. But if you want to build small, i would suggest the NCase M1 v2, if i werent to be persuing a SLI setup in...

If you want to build on a small factor, consider SilverStone RVZ01: A Mini Raven NCASE M1: Crowdfunded Enthusiast Mini-ITX Case Thanks ! I don't have any real constraints for the case except that I want a small one (mini ITX probably). 0 db IMO isn't worth it, you will never reach that, even turnin...

Do you: - have more than one monitor? - game at 1080p? - want to max out effects? - want to describe the rest of the system (case, mobo, cpu, etc) so we can tune the card to it? Also, what are the typical games? Hello ! - I have only one monitor (my TV) - game at 1080p yes (Battlefield, Serious Sam...

Hi, I am looking for a graphic card for gaming. It will be placed in a small PC which will be always on. So basically I am looking for good performance, low profile package and low power/noise at idle. I thought that the KFA2 GTX 750 Ti low profile would be perfect, but I have 10W consumption at idl...