I installed a fanless sapphire hd6670 . any users of fanless gpus?

[philipma1957]

this is the gpu and a review


http://www.hitechlegion.com/reviews...pphire-radeon-hd-6670-ultimate-edition-review

it is completely passive and silent gets a windows experience score of 7.1.

My question is does anyone use fanless cards and has anyone used this one. I am new to pc builds.

I decided quiet pc was first goal thus the fanless card. not many to pick from.

my setup is very quiet and oc's at 41 x 99.8 for the cpu.

can this card be pushed a bit via oc?

just leave it be?

any info on fanless cards would be helpful thanks!

 

[peonyu]

My sisters computer has a fanless GPU in it...It works perfectly fine, they are tested to be able to be fanless afterall. As far as overclocking goes, I have never tried it myself but my guess is that the GPU can overclock very well since it is not outputting much heat. Of course to do so you may need to put a fan on it.

The bad is that the fanless cards are slow if you game at all.. If gaming is part of what you do then it is better to pick a more expensive card that includes a good aftermarket GPU cooler on it already, a ASUS card with a DC cooler or a MSI with the twin frozr coolers are VERY quiet. I doubt at full load you would hear any of them over your cpu fan.

 

[Homeles]

Just keep an eye on temps and you'll be fine.

 

[philipma1957]

My sisters computer has a fanless GPU in it...It works perfectly fine, they are tested to be able to be fanless afterall. As far as overclocking goes, I have never tried it myself but my guess is that the GPU can overclock very well since it is not outputting much heat. Of course to do so you may need to put a fan on it.

The bad is that the fanless cards are slow if you game at all.. If gaming is part of what you do then it is better to pick a more expensive card that includes a good aftermarket GPU cooler on it already, a ASUS card with a DC cooler or a MSI with the twin frozr coolers are VERY quiet. I doubt at full load you would hear any of them over your cpu fan.

thanks

Just keep an eye on temps and you'll be fine.

ditto


these answers are what I figured and hoped for.

gaming is not my priority so I think I should be good.