What modern video card (without a fan) is a performance equal to Ti4200.

[bupkus]

What modern video card (without a fan) is a performance equal to Ti4200.

By modern I mean with DirectX 9.

 

[Zucarita9000]

Maybe a GeForce 6600 or Radeon 9600 XT w/heatpipe cooling?

 

[LatinJones]

I have a Radeon 9600 - non pro that just has a heatsink on the GPU, no heatpipes or anything fancy and I think it's comparable if not better than a TI4200. The 9600 would definately be better in games like HL2.

 

[imported_fatal]

Looks like about a geforce 5600 or better see here http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031229/

 

[bupkus]

Originally posted by: Zucarita9000
Maybe a GeForce 6600 or Radeon 9600 XT w/heatpipe cooling?

I don't think so. They're both very much more powerful than the 4200.

Perhaps I should have asked the question, "...which GPUs that are commonly available without a fan that is almost as good to a little bit better than the 4200."

Fanless directX 9 GPU = Ti4200 +/- a small delta

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: bupkus

Originally posted by: Zucarita9000
Maybe a GeForce 6600 or Radeon 9600 XT w/heatpipe cooling?

I don't think so. They're both very much more powerful than the 4200.

And this is a problem because... ?

The R9600NP is about the speed of a Ti4200, maybe a little slower (it catches up and then some with AA/AF enabled, which kills the GF4 series).

 

[imported_Kensai]

Originally posted by: bupkus

Originally posted by: Zucarita9000
Maybe a GeForce 6600 or Radeon 9600 XT w/heatpipe cooling?

I don't think so. They're both very much more powerful than the 4200.

I concur.
The 6600 has 8 pixel pipelines.
The 9600XT with something like 4 or 8.
And the GeForce 4 Ti 4200 coming up short with around 4 pipelines.

I could be wrong.

The GeForce 4 Ti is somewhere around the 9250 in performance, better than the 5200, better than the 5500.

6600 > 9600 > 4200

 

[imported_bum]

You should be worrying about how much performance you can get with money, not if it will be exactly like another. I'd either take one of the cards mentioned above and put silent cooling on it, or use a 9200/9600 w/ heatsink only.

 

[bupkus]

My friend has seen my 4200 and wants to buy a video card that can perform about the same for older games and cost as little as possible. My advice is for a modern fanless gpu because he doesn't like noise from his pc and DX9 just because. He doesn't have the budget for this so I'm trying to fit as close to the 4200 as I can yet to stay as cheap as possible.

 

[bupkus]

Originally posted by: fatal
Looks like about a geforce 5600 or better see here http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031229/

If only Tom's would do a chart like this every 6 months.
Dang!

 

[sirfergy]

try an xgi volari v3

 

[Concillian]

I think best you're gonna get is 9600 np.

If there were silent models of the 6200 that would be a better performing option, but there appear to only be some 6600s with passive cooling, all the 6200s have fans 😕

There's nothing that will be as cheap as a 4200, unless you can find one of the 4200s that have been fitted with a special passive cooler.

A 9500 pro with a VGA silencer is another option. It has a fan, but when set on low is VERY quiet.

 

[jsalpha2]

I like this one
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDe...-102-320&catalog=23&manufactory=BROWSE

 

[GML3G0]

There's a Gigabyte version of the 6600 GT with heatpipe cooling. It's on ZipZoomFly.com

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: GML3G0
There's a Gigabyte version of the 6600 GT with heatpipe cooling. It's on ZipZoomFly.com

There are also fanless variants of many other cards, but he's looking for something cheap. IIRC, the Gigabyte 6600GT with the heatpipe is one of the more expensive models.

I doubt you'll do better with a new card than a 9600NP.

If only Tom's would do a chart like this every 6 months.

You might try digit-life's 3Digests. They cover basically all currently available cards, and every now and then they do very broad roundups. The benchmark selection is a little limited, but that's the price you pay for having 20-30 cards benched monthly.

 

[MonkeyWrench4000]

the Radeon 9550 128bit is slightly faster then the ti4200, its fanless and reliable, around $65.

 

[Rock Hydra]

Radeon 9600s are approximately the equivalent to a TI4200 and there are many varieties of that card with passive coling solutions. In fact, when I bought one a year or so ago, I could barely find an acively cooled one.