Shuttle G5 & Video Card

[bobharp]

I had been looking a stricktly passive cooling video cards for a Shuttle G5 PC for my wife but lately I have been worried about airflow in the box.

The card I was looking at was an ATI-9550. I was not real happy about putting an ATI in an Nvidia chipset box but I could not find a decent passive Nvidia GPU.

To sum it up. I want a quiet video card that will work well in the sff box. The wife mostly crunches numbers and does word processing.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Bob

 

[thraxes]

You might as well get a card with a fan. Stick with ATi though, as they tend to be quieter and running an ATI card on an NVidia chipset isn't a problem BTW. The slight noise the AGP cards fan will make will be drowned out by the case anyway. If you really want silence, don't get an SFF.

 

[bobharp]

Thanks! So you agree that there may not be enough airflow in the SFF box for a passive card? I had been thinking of an 9600xt just in case I needed a quick lan party of UT2k4.

Bob

 

[bobharp]

thraxes or anyone,

Do you have a silent pc case/power supply reccomendation? I am concerned about noise from the SFF boxes. Space is not an issue.

Thanks,
Bob

 

[Rage187]

I use a 6600GT and cant hear it over the ambient sound of the SN45G.