Hello (and help!) from a Newbie - bought a "silent"
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 12:33 pm
Hi,
I just found this forum when searching for info on a passive cooled ATI 4850 1G. I have a question - if anyone can help in any way it would be greatly appreciated.
Background:
I told a custom build supplier of silent computers (arbico.co.uk) that I wanted a silent PC which was capable of playing mid-range games and fast with 3D graphics applications like SolidWorks, along with big image processing using all Adobe graphics programs. He suggested changing the standard card from silent nVidia 9800 GT 1GB Passive Cooled to an Silent ATI HD4850 1GB Passive Cooled.
The invoiced spec. was i7 960 3.2 CPU, Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R motherboard, Silent Gigabyte ATI HD4850 1GB Passive Cooled graphics card.
I have just taken delivery but the graphics card is a "Custom Modded Powercolor ATI HD 4850 1GB Card with an Arctic Cooling Passive heatsink"
My question:
Would I have been better with the nVidia card from a silence perspective? (When I ordered I was relying completely on the suppliers advice because I don't know much about this, but I have now read on the web that the ATI 4850 can run hot.). If you think that the graphics card supplied is just as good as the one invoiced and will do the job then I would be happy to just get on an use the machine - even though the supplier was being a bit sharp.
If anyone could comment it would be a great help.
Kind regards.
I just found this forum when searching for info on a passive cooled ATI 4850 1G. I have a question - if anyone can help in any way it would be greatly appreciated.
Background:
I told a custom build supplier of silent computers (arbico.co.uk) that I wanted a silent PC which was capable of playing mid-range games and fast with 3D graphics applications like SolidWorks, along with big image processing using all Adobe graphics programs. He suggested changing the standard card from silent nVidia 9800 GT 1GB Passive Cooled to an Silent ATI HD4850 1GB Passive Cooled.
The invoiced spec. was i7 960 3.2 CPU, Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R motherboard, Silent Gigabyte ATI HD4850 1GB Passive Cooled graphics card.
I have just taken delivery but the graphics card is a "Custom Modded Powercolor ATI HD 4850 1GB Card with an Arctic Cooling Passive heatsink"
My question:
Would I have been better with the nVidia card from a silence perspective? (When I ordered I was relying completely on the suppliers advice because I don't know much about this, but I have now read on the web that the ATI 4850 can run hot.). If you think that the graphics card supplied is just as good as the one invoiced and will do the job then I would be happy to just get on an use the machine - even though the supplier was being a bit sharp.
If anyone could comment it would be a great help.
Kind regards.