Fastest card with passive cooling?

Hi!

Are there any decent cards with passive cooling on the market? It
doesn't have to be able to play Crysis in the highest resolution but it
should be DX10 compatible and it should have 256 MB or upwards.

Any suggestions?

btw, AGP and PCI-E doesn't matter...

Tnx.

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:06:52 +0100, Thomas Engler
<thomas.engler@gmx.de> wrote:

>
>Are there any decent cards with passive cooling on the market? It
>doesn't have to be able to play Crysis in the highest resolution but it
>should be DX10 compatible and it should have 256 MB or upwards.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>btw, AGP and PCI-E doesn't matter...

There are some passive cooled 8800GT's. Havn't looked around much, but
whould gave guessed that also the 3870 can be implemented passive.
Thus, these boards with a passive cooler might require quite a good
air flow in your pc...




--
Clas Mehus
- "Den som har flest prylar när han dör vinner..."

On Dec 10, 4:23 pm, Clas Mehus <clas.me...@idg.no> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:06:52 +0100, Thomas Engler
>
> <thomas.eng...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> >Are there any decent cards with passive cooling on the market? It
> >doesn't have to be able to play Crysis in the highest resolution but it
> >should be DX10 compatible and it should have 256 MB or upwards.
>
> >Any suggestions?
>
> >btw, AGP and PCI-E doesn't matter...
>
> There are some passive cooled 8800GT's. Havn't looked around much, but

do you have a link? i only saw passively cooled 8600gtses
and 2600s

> whould gave guessed that also the 3870 can be implemented passive.
> Thus, these boards with a passive cooler might require quite a good
> air flow in your pc...
>
> --
> Clas Mehus
> - "Den som har flest prylar när han dör vinner..."

I copied and pasted this off the current
Anantech.com site:

Sparkle 8800 GT Passive: The Fastest Silent GPU in the World

They have an article on it and they like it alot.

--
--DaveW
"Thomas Engler" <thomas.engler@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:gi6rl3dtkkcu26jhijlpmg3m341i5i7lkv@4ax.com...
> Hi!
>
> Are there any decent cards with passive cooling on the market? It
> doesn't have to be able to play Crysis in the highest resolution but it
> should be DX10 compatible and it should have 256 MB or upwards.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> btw, AGP and PCI-E doesn't matter...
>
> Tnx.
>

"Thomas Engler" <thomas.engler@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:gi6rl3dtkkcu26jhijlpmg3m341i5i7lkv@4ax.com...
> Hi!
>
> Are there any decent cards with passive cooling on the market? It
> doesn't have to be able to play Crysis in the highest resolution but it
> should be DX10 compatible and it should have 256 MB or upwards.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> btw, AGP and PCI-E doesn't matter...
>
> Tnx.
>

Just buy a Thermalright passive heatsink. 0 dB and keeps the card cool.

On Dec 10, 10:04 pm, "KlausK" <di...@noone.com> wrote:
> "Thomas Engler" <thomas.eng...@gmx.de> wrote in message
>
> news:gi6rl3dtkkcu26jhijlpmg3m341i5i7lkv@4ax.com...
>
> > Hi!
>
> > Are there any decent cards with passive cooling on the market? It
> > doesn't have to be able to play Crysis in the highest resolution but it
> > should be DX10 compatible and it should have 256 MB or upwards.
>
> > Any suggestions?
>
> > btw, AGP and PCI-E doesn't matter...
>
> > Tnx.
>
> Just buy a Thermalright passive heatsink. 0 dB and keeps the card cool.

Sapphire makes a oassive cooled 3850...

James