Are there any passive $200 PCI-E GPUs?

[yacoub]

Wondering what GPU to go with. Something $200 or under is preferable, and something fanless would be ideal for lack of maintenance (cleaning) as long as it's not too old a generation of GPU. Any suggestions?

What's fanless these days? Wasn't there an NVidia GPU not that long ago that was fanless? Or was that the old 6600GT? Any fanless 7600GTs going to be released?

 

[Bobthelost]

Are they really going to need that much GPU power?

7600GT comes in fanless variants i belive.

 

[dug777]

I'm sure there are many mate X300s, 6200s, 6600s, even x800/x1600/7900s come in fanless form.

 

[Golgatha]

I think pretty much all the 7600GS cards are passive and ASUS makes a passive 7600GT. There are several lower end ATI cards which are totally passive too.

Newegg.com drill down FTW!

 

[Dman877]

There was recently an article on some fanless cards on the front page of this site. Go to the video tab.

 

[yacoub]

Asus EN7600 GS Silent, got it. Thanks!

 

[imported_killuminati]

ohh , well .
good gaming then .

well there are X1800XL for $209 .
and X1800XT for $219 and $239 .

Peace & ciao !!!

 

[yacoub]

maybe as a side benefit but for them it's more just having a fairly recent chipset so it can make use of the latest driver benefits and video codecs and whatnot.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Off-topic: I was looking for a card on NewEgg (Passively-cooled X1300) and a customer review for a $70 X1300 with 128MB RAM said, "All you need for current games"
Note: Don't believe everything you read on NewEgg Customer Reviews.

 

[gchanjam]

Well that all depends on personal preference. I know people that are perfectly happy with 800x600 medium settings in games because they play games for the story and just to play it so for people like that, an x1300 is more than enough for current games.