Fanless GT 240!
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Fanless GT 240!
Hey, I just noticed this on newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product
It's not the most powerful card in the world, but I think it's the most powerful fanless nvidia card I've seen. A little ventilation in the case would be necessary, but it's nice to see a reasonably powerful card going fanless. And it also doesn't have a power port, it seems to draw all power from the pci bus. I guess moving to the new process node is starting to pay off a little for nvidia. Silent and low power, plus the built in hdmi port, it seems fairly ideal for a quiet htpc. I like it!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product
It's not the most powerful card in the world, but I think it's the most powerful fanless nvidia card I've seen. A little ventilation in the case would be necessary, but it's nice to see a reasonably powerful card going fanless. And it also doesn't have a power port, it seems to draw all power from the pci bus. I guess moving to the new process node is starting to pay off a little for nvidia. Silent and low power, plus the built in hdmi port, it seems fairly ideal for a quiet htpc. I like it!
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3709
this is a good article on the 240 cards. I like the card as I am not sold on ATI cards for Linux.
this is a good article on the 240 cards. I like the card as I am not sold on ATI cards for Linux.
Arctic Cooling did add the GT240s to their S1 compatibility list a few weeks back.Vicotnik wrote:
If my S1 would work with a GT 240 I would own one already.
I picked up a Galaxy 512MB DDR5 model about two weeks ago, and then got another S1 this week, and it mounted without a problem.
I saw that too and now a Gigabyte GT240 512MB GDDR5 is on it's way.NTNgod wrote:Arctic Cooling did add the GT240s to their S1 compatibility list a few weeks back.
I picked up a Galaxy 512MB DDR5 model about two weeks ago, and then got another S1 this week, and it mounted without a problem.
I'd just checked the mounting holes quickly before and noticed that they are further apart than on the 4670, but I didn't think about that the S1 rev2 has multiple screw holes.
I hope it will work in a semi passive configuration, as I will not use the turbo module.
There's a big performance difference between the DDR3 and GDDR5 cards though. Check the Anand article you linked to earlier.Greg F. wrote:Since the S1 with Turbo would add about fifty bucks to a card, I think the card the OP linked to seems like a good value.
"There is a DDR3 based GT 240, and a GDDR5 based GT 240. The former has 25.44GB/sec of memory bandwidth, while the latter has 54.4GB/sec. This results in 3 cards: An $89 GT 240 with 512MB of DDR3, a $99 GT 240 with 1GB of DDR3, and a $99 GT 240 with 512MB of GDDR5.
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A DDR3 GT 240 is not comparable to a GDDR5 GT 240 in most cases, and you’ll understand why when you see our benchmarks. The memory bandwidth starvation when using DDR3 means that the DDR3 GT 240 is often in its own lesser performance class, a problem when most DDR3 GT 240s are equipped with 1GB of the stuff and sell for as much as their GDDR5 brethren."
I suspect the Turbo recommendation by AC is a CYA thing; given how cool these cards run, the S1 is massive overkill.Greg F. wrote:Since the S1 with Turbo would add about fifty bucks to a card, I think the card the OP linked to seems like a good value.
I have direct airflow on the card itself from the fan mounted on the back HD cage in my P182, although not on the heatsink portion proper (the master x16 PCI-E slot in my board sits further down than the norm; the slave x16 slot is in the more traditional spot at the top).
I haven't run benchmarks yet, but in "normal" load usage in a room w/ ambient about 19deg. C, it's topping out just above 40deg. It idles about 32 deg.
The passive GT240 in the OP is one of the few GT240s that's not heavily rebated. The after-rebate cost of my DDR5 card + an Accelero S1 from NewEgg's ChiefValue site will actually be about the same price as the shipped cost of that DDR3 Zotac.
Granted, I did have to assemble it, but I got a faster card and (most likely) a better cooler.
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