GFX card recommendations

[thomashenrydavies]

Hi.

Can anyone recommend a fanless, cheap, feature light PCI-e GFX card with Dual head output? Basically I want a direct replacement for my Matrox G450, but in PCIe! Dual Dsub would be best.

Thanks
TomD

[arela]

I have a ASUS geforce 6600 GT silent, no trouble so far.
A big radiator, but you kan turn it 90 degrees (agains front or top)

1 dig/analog out + 1 analog + 1 s-video (in or in/out or out - don't know!!)

Mine isone year old, and i could not find it in the web shop anymore, but something like this:
Asus GeForce 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 Silent, PCI-Express, Tv-Out/2xDVI-I

[garyb]

that one is good, any nvidia card will work well. personally i use evga brand. don't spend more than $100!

[thomashenrydavies]

The nvidia 6200 series look suitable - dual head, passive cooling, and about $30!

[garyb]

just get one with a bunch of ram, at least 128mb. i'd get 256mb, it's not much more expensive. video will be plenty smooth.

[gainman]

Hi, I'm also looking for a graphics card with similar requirements as thomashenrydavies, i.e. fanless, cheap and feature light PCI-e.

Plus one more: I want to be able to use the PCI1 slot of an ASUS P5B for my DSPs, and I'm afraid the heatsink of the graphics card might interfere with the CWA card, so that the graphics card and/or the CWA card get too hot, or even it could not be possible to make both cards fit in their corresponding slots.

Could you provide any guidance regarding that?

[roy thinnes]

I have a nvidia Geforce7600GS and had never problems regarding heat. It fits perfectly into the P5B alongside the CW cards.

[gainman]

Hi, which brand is yours?

I read that the heatsink design can vary from one brand to another.
(http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/07/26 ... asus_evga/)

From the P5B layout I'd say the graphics card is almost touching the CW card if you use PCI1. Is it your case and still no problems with heat?

[garyb]

it's ok in a well ventilated case.

[roy thinnes]

I have a Captiva 256mb card. Together with the Core2Duo cpu, Arctic-cooling freezer and Xilence power supply it's pure fun

[pollux]

Hi.

Can anyone recommend a fanless, cheap, feature light PCI-e GFX card with Dual head output? Basically I want a direct replacement for my Matrox G450, but in PCIe! Dual Dsub would be best.

Thanks
TomD

Matrox Parhelia. There's a PCI-e version.. too bad it comes only with 128 MB of RAM. (the AGP version comes with up to 256 MB)

Definetly the best video card out there.. maybe not as fast as the latest NVidias or ATIs, but the grahics quality is still state of the art!