RE: [OT] : Graphics card advice wanted...

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Graphics cards are a bloody minefield - especially if you're trying to
buil=
d
a quiet PC as "meaty" cards are difficult to cool passively and
require a
decent airflow over the heatsinks which is kinda the thing you *DON'T* have
on a quiet PC!

I found a couple of BIIIIIG Ati Saphire Radeon HD 2900XTs for sale on ebay
at =A3150 (so far) which were =A3200 each from Overclockers six months ago
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which
have big fansinks on them but are supposed to be silent - I'm even tempted
to give those a shot but haven't ATi been taking a bit of a battering to
nVidia recently?

My current card is an ATi Radeon 2400 which is passively cooled and is
*SUPPOSED* to be OK for HiDef playback but my current processor isn't up to
it - maybe I should just stick to that for now? :-D

Phil



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Paul Gordon
> Sent: 19 April 2008 19:33
> To: UKHA Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] : Graphics card advice wanted...
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> Phil, How about one of these...
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> http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143222
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> I've just ordered one for myself... :-)
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> IF need be, there is a GTS version of the card that is also passively
> cooled, but with a different (bigger) system... There's a comparison
of
> them here...
> http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=3DMTM3OSwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFz
> dA
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> HTH
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> Paul G.
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> BTW, - where's the PSU coming from? - I'd like to get a modular one
for
> my main workstation PC...



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