Fastest fanless card without mod?

Wolfcastle

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Without having to modify the cooler to make it silent or to buy from a retailer to modded it, what is the fastest fanless video card today, or what is the one with the most silent fan?

I know there are a few retailers who do the mods, but they seem much more expensive than their fanned or louder counterparts.
 

Arkaign

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XFX Has a fanless 7950GT, I don't know of any stock fanless X1950XT, but they would be slightly faster.
 

BFG10K

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The 7950 is the fastest fanless video card. If you want something faster you'll need to go with water cooling.
 

coolpurplefan

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In Canadian dollars, not long ago I compared the X1650 XT which was around $130 US to the X1950 Pro which was $280 CDN.
I did buy the X1650 XT at case-mod.com since they ship to Canada. But, I found out from Fedex that the reason why they charged me a brokerage fee was because it was ground. Express includes a brokerage fee. I could have chosen another shipper/shipping method so it was partly my mistake. Of course, they told me since I didn't know, I have the option of not paying the extra $44 CDN and the shipper will be billed for that after 90 days. I'm tempted to do just that. I still have some time to decide.
 

postmortemIA

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There are cards with very quiet fans that from your perspective sound like they are fanless.