BFG 9800GT EcoIntelligence + Prolimatech MK-13 (100% silent)

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I have a Dell T5500 workstation with 2 x E5520 Xeon CPUs. They put out some heat, but nothing unmanageable. I have been waiting for a long time to buy a decent GPU to replace my fanless MSI 9500GT. It was really hard to find a GPU with 75W power max and have it be fanless. So, I had to make my own mix-and-match of sorts.

I got the BFG 9800GT 1G BEcoIntelligence since it was the cheapest card based on the reference design. (I tried the Zotac Eco but the custom PCB had different hole locations which gave me clearance problems with the Prolimatech MK-13, it's mostly a Dell case design issue.)

The temperatures are very decent. After about 1hr of gaming the GPU stabilizes around 64-65C. Then after I quit the game and come back to 2D mode, it idles around 46-48C.

It's not the fastest card out there, but it runs straight from PCIe power and it's completely silent which were the 2 top priorities for me.