Looking for a cool running DX9 card

[miri]

I have a Ti4200 that I like except for the heat it produces. The performance on my card is very good, close to 13,000 in 3d2001 with nothing overclocked.

My cpu temperature runs about 40 idle and over 55 when playing cpu demanding games.

I opened my case and i noticed on the back of the video card, there is a lot of hot area rising from it, and i'm assuming its going straight into the cpu heatsink area.

I have 2 exhaust fans near my video card, the bottom exhaust fan pulls a lot of warm air out, the one above it pulls cold air. I guess the bottom one is doing all the work.

My question is, what video cards run the coolest? I'm looking for something that won't produce much heat on the back of the card, so my cpu will run cooler.

I'm looking to get a DX9 card, so please no suggestions on getting a new cooler for my cpu and anyway that wouldn't stop the rising heat issue from my video card.

Thanks for any video card advice.

 

[Schadenfroh]

9600 pro is cooler than the others

 

[UlricT]

I have 2 exhaust fans near my video card, the bottom exhaust fan pulls a lot of warm air out, the one above it pulls cold air. I guess the bottom one is doing all the work.

Well... You do know that hot air rises, and cold air comes down... right? So, this means that the air in the lower part of your case (colder) would be pulled out by the fan at the bottom.... Someone correct me if I'm wrong...

 

[miri]

Sorry, I wrote that wrong

Tthe bottom exhaust fan is actually not on the bottom of the case it is right by the back part of the video card.

The top exhaust fan is right above that

 

[wetcat007]

Well in all honesty, anything better than the ti4200 will be producing a decent ammount of heat, i would look into adding case fans or something, or a bigger case.

 

[wacki]

Miri.... Your case fans are all wrong and you will continue to have problems till you fix this. The air in your case must go front to back. Cold air goes in the front and gets blown out the back. The only exception that I know of is coolermaster cases where the intake is the blowhole ontop of the case. Intake and output fans must be on different sides of the case or you will just end up recirculating the same stale hot air in and out of the case! If you don't have a intake fan in the front of the case don't worry the front of the case isn't exactly air tight, and there should be inlet holes in the front anyway.

 

[miri]

Did you guys read my message wrong?

I have a antec case

I have a front bottom intake fan

In the back I have 2 exhaust fans, that are right below the power supply

 

[MercenaryForHire]

So hold on.

You want a high-performing powerhouse with loads of muscle and hardcore DX9 support.

But you want it ice-cold.

...

You want a side of World Peace and a free Ferrari with that?

- M4H

 

[miri]

Where are you guys coming out with these intepretations?

All I asked for was advice about any DX9 cards that ran cooler than a ti4200. I don't know if there are any that's why I asked.

My Ti4200 produces a lot of heat on the back of the card, I don't know if next generation cards ran cooler, hotter or the same. I never asked for a ice cold card.

 

[miri]

ALSO DX9 cards do not = Powerhouse

 

[MasterHoss]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
9600 pro is cooler than the others

 

[Arcanedeath]

The only card that will perform around the same as your Ti 4200, produce less heat, and support DX9 is Ati's 9600 Pro, almost all the other cards on the market, either perform worse or make to much heat. Hope this helps...

 

[mchammer187]

Originally posted by: Arcanedeath
The only card that will perform around the same as your Ti 4200, produce less heat, and support DX9 is Ati's 9600 Pro, almost all the other cards on the market, either perform worse or make to much heat. Hope this helps...

while the 9600 will perform like a Ti4200 it would be a dumb upgrade IMO

DX9 games will probably not be playable at all with a 9600 w/ DX9 features so it would be better off turning off the DX9 features to play them

so there wouldnt be any advantage to getting anything less powerful than a radeon 9700 but I would just keep the Ti4200

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
9600 pro is cooler than the others

agreed

 

[miri]

Thanks guys for the advice.

While DL new bios for my Abit IS7 I noticed they are advertising a Geforce FX card with the "Best cooling"

Looking further into it, they show a regular card with heat rising above it, like mine

Then their solution exhausts hot air out into the back of the case not toward the CPU

Looks interesting, anyone have one of these cards?

 

[arcenite]

heh

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: miri
Thanks guys for the advice. While DL new bios for my Abit IS7 I noticed they are advertising a Geforce FX card with the "Best cooling" Looking further into it, they show a regular card with heat rising above it, like mine Then their solution exhausts hot air out into the back of the case not toward the CPU Looks interesting, anyone have one of these cards?

Marketing ploy, they're trying to sell you a new card. Just stick with the 4200. On my 4600 I can play Unreal Tournament 2003 with all of the eye candy on at repectable framerates, which should tell you something .

 

[Czar]

9600 pro along with a zalman heatsink