Quietest HD 3850 AGP Card?

belkincp · Post by **belkincp** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 3:00 am

Whats the Quietest HD 3850 AGP Card?

FartingBob · Post by **FartingBob** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:56 am

I doubt many people have used more than 1 of those cards so i dont know how useful this poll would be to you.

Belmonte · Post by **Belmonte** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:54 am

IMHO, i think it's best to use an Accelero s1 with any of them. However, ATI AGP cards have a bridge chip on the other side, and that one can get quite hot as well. It defitely gets hot in a HD 2400 AGP of mine.

Just my 2cents.

belkincp · Post by **belkincp** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:28 am

i really dont feel like going through the whole replacing heatsink thing with my video card.... as of now i just want to buy one with the quietest fan... so far i heard sapphire is loud.. and both visiontek and his claim to be quiet..... wish there were dba stats somewhere........

rpsgc · Post by **rpsgc** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:36 am

You could aways reduce idle fan speed with RivaTuner.

belkincp · Post by **belkincp** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:41 am

does rivatuner wrk with all 3850 agp cards? and how much dba we talkin about while just cruising the internet

coweater58 · Post by **coweater58** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:50 am

i have the powercolor 3850 and the stock black cooler was pretty loud. i put on a HR-03 with a 92mm thermal controlled and was very silent.

belkincp · Post by **belkincp** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:35 am

so u think i could reuse the hr-03 from my x800 and put it on a 3850 powercolor... would the heatsink work with all 3850 agps? was it hard putting the hr-03..did u need any special adapters..

belkincp · Post by **belkincp** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:26 pm

i was looking at the dba stress test for the 3850 and 70 by spcr and saw pretty good noise levels... 22dba? thats unreal for a stock card...

i read some ppl saying the sapphire 3850 was as loud as 40 dba at full load and the powercolor ran at 34dba full load...

im wondering if theres a difference between the 3850 cards in terms of noise....

rpsgc · Post by **rpsgc** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:36 am

belkincp wrote:i was looking at the dba stress test for the 3850 and 70 by spcr and saw pretty good noise levels... 22dba? thats unreal for a stock card...

i read some ppl saying the sapphire 3850 was as loud as 40 dba at full load and the powercolor ran at 34dba full load...

im wondering if theres a difference between the 3850 cards in terms of noise....

Yes. AGP cards don't use the stock ATI cooler

coweater58 · Post by **coweater58** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 4:24 pm

sry for such a late reply. i didn't have to do anything special to the cooler to make it fit. it's the HR-03 for a 2900 xt it said it only fit that model but it worked fine on mine. The card idles around 30c and max is 42c.

Zorander · Post by **Zorander** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:34 pm

I'd personally slap an Accelero S1 (and a good quiet fan) on the card. It will work out more quietly than any of the stock solutions.

Between the HIS and Powercolor card, I'd give a nod to the latter just because the RAM-sinks and VRM-sinks do not need to (cannot, to be more exact) be replaced by the 'non-sticky' sinks provided with the Accelero and work well. Analog output quality is horrible on this particular card though, but will only be a concern to analog display user.

Cheers!