graphic card - cheap but quiet?!

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tomos
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graphic card - cheap but quiet?!

Post by tomos » Wed Aug 08, 2007 2:59 pm

Hi, I'm almost finished configuring my new pc,
just unsure about graphic card -

I want to get a cheap one, 40 to 50euro -
Originally I was going to get mobo with 256MG on board.

I've heard Graphic cards can be pretty loud -
the rest of the machine is hopefully fairly quiet!

In that price range I could get a passively cooled 128MB, or am I worrying unnecessarily?
Would 128MB dedicated card be as good/better than 256MB on board?
(unfortunately the site - which is also building the PC - doesnt offer passively cooled 256MB card in this price range)
Or, of course I could get a 256MB card not passively cooled

Here's the possible list:
Asus gf-7100gs silent, 128mb, nvidia 7100gs, pcie
36,50 € thats the passively cooled one

Club3d x1550, 256mb, ati radeon x1550, pci-express
40,35 €

Club3d 7300le nvidia 7300le, 128mb, pcie
41,68 €

Xfx geforce 8400gs 256mb ddr3, pci-express
43,50 €

Asus gf-7300gs td, 256mb, nvidia 7300gs, pci-express
46,60 €

Gigabyte gv-nx73g128d nvidia 7300gs, 128mb, pcie
49,72 €
any recommendations/opinions would be very much appreciated!

thanks, tom

P.S. was going to get the new (I think) Corsair VX450W PSU
Did a search here but didnt find any actual reports on it - anyone know if it's as good as the 520 is supposed to be?

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Post by tomos » Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:27 pm

forgot to give links
here's one for the
ASUS passive 128MB
& it's homepage

and for example the
Xfx geforce 8400gs 256mb ddr3, pci-express

tomos
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Post by tomos » Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:39 pm

just after seeing the same website where I'm getting PC built does actually have
XFX GeForce 8400GS passiv 256MB DDR3, PCI-Express
for €46 but doesnt offer it with my config :?
Maybe it's not compatible... (you choose CPU, they offer compatabile mobo & so on..)
Mobo is MSI P35 Neo-F, Intel P35, ATX.
Ah, well

I am worried about noise, but also performance (& price)
looking for the balance I guess

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Post by Aris » Wed Aug 08, 2007 10:19 pm

7600gs is a very competant graphics card that you can get with a single slot stock passive heatsink. Not sure where to get in europe but heres a link to newegg.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814121008

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Post by tomos » Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:35 am

thanks Aris!

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