Tolerable fanned vga cards? post your experiences

Likif · Post by **Likif** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 4:52 pm

I was thinking, maybe some of you had experienced a vga card with a factory installed fan that was at tolerable noise levels. It's hard to tell from other sites what cards are quiet, since noise tolerance is a notch higher elsewhere. And I'm not thinking silent, but simply tolerable. That's subjective, I know, but that's psychology for ya.

I'm aiming at identifying some sort of brand behaviour, for example MSI reputedly make vga cards that run more quiet than others.

post your experiences, please.

Likif · Post by **Likif** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:05 pm

no tolerable noise levels on fanned cards? at all?

Wedge · Post by **Wedge** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 11:17 am

Probably not. When this forum speaks of quietness, it's a pretty rigid standard, which is a great part of this forum (I think MikeC's standards are very tough, and that's a good thing).

That said, my BBA 9800 non-pro fan is quieter than I had anticipated. But still, it's too loud for the quiet user. I'll be unplugging it soon in favor of an undervolted L1A pointing at it the heatsink at an angle (trying to hit the ram chips a bit too).

Likif · Post by **Likif** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 11:07 am

Allow me to resurrect this stillborn thread with my new vga card, the Tyan Tachyon 9600 pro. It has a software adjustable fan that goes from 7000 rpm to 3100 rpm. At 3100 rpm it's really very quiet compared with other vga cards I have heard.

Hereby recommended.

MikeK · Post by **MikeK** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 12:27 pm

Tyan really puts some bells and whistles on those things don't they. Check this out: http://www.tyan.com/products/html/g9800prom.html

much bigger heatsink, a software monitor, fan control. I wish I could do this with my 9800 pro.

breakspirit · Post by **breakspirit** » Fri Nov 14, 2003 2:22 pm

im buying a tyan 9800pro-m. ill post whether the fan speed thing is affective and worth it when it arrives next week. anyone else have any first hand experience? reviews of it online are rare

breakspirit · Post by **breakspirit** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 9:16 pm

well, i got that card, and i wrote up a post in this forum about it.

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewto ... 5467#55467

DeeSeL · Post by **DeeSeL** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 6:22 am

Likif wrote:I was thinking, maybe some of you had experienced a vga card with a factory installed fan that was at tolerable noise levels.

Check this out and you might wanna re-think this thing

For tolerable "noise" I would go for passive cooling every time.
Sapphire sells the "Ultimate Edition" (9800XT here) versions of almost all Radeons.
Some pictures, with the, to my knowledge, option Zalman fan (Google translation).

I am going for the 9600XT as it's pretty much perfect for price/performance.

MGP · Post by **MGP** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 11:11 am

I'll let you know that you should definitely stay away from Gainward graphics cards if silence is important (unless you obviously mod with a Zalman heatpipe cooler). I must admit that they make great quality, feature-rich cards however (my old GF4 Ti4600 came with dual DVI, a VIA PCI 1394 card w/ 3 ports, tons of video connections/adapters, dvd/video making software, and overclocked quite well).

breakspirit · Post by **breakspirit** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 1:21 pm

i'd have gotten the sapphire fanless card, except my old sapphire 9700pro died way before its time and i lost all interest in their products.

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