My video card is easily the most noisy thing in my studio right now. In order to cut down on noise, I'm considering getting a video card that does not have a fan. This is a dedicated music/audio production computer, I don't play games on it, so I don't think that GPU performance is much of a consideration at all. I have two monitors, one with a VGA cable and one with a DVI cable. Eventually I would like to upgrade them to both have digital inputs (no VGA), so ideally a new video card would have something like VGA + DVI + HDMI, or VGA + DVI + DVI.
The two top results when I search for "fanless video card" on newegg seem like they would do, but they're both around $70; it seems like I should be able to find something cheaper than that, given that I just want it to be quiet and not choke while displaying 2d graphics on dual monitors. Does anybody have a recommendation?
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Re: Fanless video card
Stupid question. You don't happen to have an i7 with built in GPU that you could use?
I'd also suggest staying away from nvidia (at least the proprietary driver) if you use a realtime kernel. Have no idea how well nouveau and amd gpus work..
I'd also suggest staying away from nvidia (at least the proprietary driver) if you use a realtime kernel. Have no idea how well nouveau and amd gpus work..
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Re: Fanless video card
Look for the Zotac GeForce GT-710 2GB (ZT-71302-20L), it's available for about 40€ here in Europe and has VGA, DVI, HDMI outputs.
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Re: Fanless video card
It's not stupid, I gave you no indication of my mobo/proc combo. I have ye olde AMD Athlon II.Jack Winter wrote:Stupid question. You don't happen to have an i7 with built in GPU that you could use?