Which passive GPU offers HDMI video/sound and dual DVI?

yacoub · Post by **yacoub** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:21 am

Say one is building a PC with a 45watt CPU w/ a passive cooler,
an SSD for the hard drive, and wants a silent GPU as well to go with it.
It needs to be capable enough to run DVDs upscaled to 1680x or 1920x, and HD content as well.
It needs to have HDMI as well.

Is there any GPU like this that's available passively-cooled (and doesn't overheat itself because it shouldn't be passively-cooled lol)?

nutball · Post by **nutball** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:48 am

Any reason you're asking for a discrete GPU, rather than a 780G-based motherboard like the Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H (which ticks all your boxes as far as I can see)?

yacoub · Post by **yacoub** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:01 am

My lack of knowledge about 780G?

I had no idea there was such a capable onboard GPU, and passively-cooled at that.

This one looks even better: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Mot ... uctID=2859

lm · Post by lm » Fri Jul 11, 2008 6:03 am

yacoub wrote: It needs to be capable enough to run DVDs upscaled to 1680x or 1920x, and HD content as well.

Decoding and upscaling dvd is peanuts, the HD content is what defines your requirements, being much much more demanding than DVD upscaling.

Lawrence Lee · Post by **Lawrence Lee** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:50 am

780G boards can only output one digital and one analog signal at the same time, so no dual DVI or DVI/HDMI - it has to be either DVI/VGA or HDMI/VGA. You could get a card with an ATI card with dual DVI and use Hybrid Crossfire to get the IGP's HDMI output as well.

elemental · Post by **elemental** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:43 am

BTW DVI and HDMI video are the EXACT SAME QUALITY, so if your motherboard or audio card has a digital out you can just link all your digital A/V up like that. It'll be a little "messier" than a single cable, but it''ll look and sound just as good.

yacoub · Post by **yacoub** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:26 am

Well this little guy is looking pretty good:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813128341
( GIGABYTE GA-MA78GPM-DS2H )

Other discussion going on here: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1320461

adrichardson · Post by **adrichardson** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:06 pm

Looks like they've rethought the northbridge cooler since the G33... I had to switch mine for a Noctua U6 just to get a reasonable low profile cooler to fit.

Which passive GPU offers HDMI video/sound and dual DVI?

Which passive GPU offers HDMI video/sound and dual DVI?

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