Fanless Video Card advice.

[Invisible Evil]

Would someone be so kind as to give a recommendation on a fanless video card?

Imagine it being used for light gaming ( Left 4 Dead, l4d2)

Thanks for any advice!

 

[Fallengod]

Honestly, I was just considering one myself. Now, L4D2 can be played on even a GT 520, so I dont know how much money youre looking to spend or what all games you plan to play but this Asus GT 440 1GB DDR3 looked interesting. Its $55 after rebate, which is not the best price in the world but, its a lot of card for also being dead silent.

http://www.amazon.com/GeForce-ENGT4...S1V0/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1327702460&sr=8-6


As I said though, you can find much cheaper options if you dont need the speed. There are many GT 520's for $20-$25AR that probably have passive cooling. Like this one--> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121475

The issue I was debating with is, Tigerdirect has the Zotac GT 440 with 512MB of DDR5 memory for only $50AR which is going to be faster than a DDR3 card. So its cheaper and faster, but not silient.

 

[Arkadrel]

GIGABYTE GV-R677SL-1GD ~138$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125386

Again this is probably 10-20$ more expensive than most normal version of the 6770. This however doesnt seem that bad, as most fanless usually cost more.


A 6770 should have no issues with L4D2.


http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1673/8/

For this game we turned all of the settings as high as they could go and we set our AA at X8 and our AF at X16.

If you go by Techpowerup's charts, a 5770 is like 210% of a Geforce GT 440 or so (on avg).

So if you wanted to play at 192x1080 with everything on,
you d probably get half the FPS of the 6770 (rebage of a 5770).

So instead of 70fps maxed out at 1920x res, you d be playing at 35 fps with a Geforce GT 440.

 

[Fallengod]

Just so you know, a 6770 is way way overkill for L4D2. Thats why I asked what games he plans to play or what hes looking to spend. I guess it kind of depends what resolution and quality settings he wants too. I always play FPS games on low quality and low res's.

A GT 430/440 or similar can bust out tons of FPS in source games with a decent cpu. If he only plans on doing "light" gaming, theres no reason to spend more than $50-$80 on a GPU.

 

[Arkadrel]

Yeah I know its kinda overboad, thats under max settings and most AAx8/AFx16.

I kinda suspect a 440 with lower settings would do it just fine as well.

 

[Invisible Evil]

Yeah I honestly would ONLY play those 2 ( l4d 1 and 2) as for new games....

I might pop in some old stuff like DOOM3 and such. This is going into a Shuttle SFF as well I recon I should have said that!

 

[d3fu5i0n]

Yeah I honestly would ONLY play those 2 ( l4d 1 and 2) as for new games....

I might pop in some old stuff like DOOM3 and such. This is going into a Shuttle SFF as well I recon I should have said that!

Hmmh, that Gigabyte 6770 has a massive heatsink and the PCB is quite long.

Off of the top of my head [busy right now] a fanless/heatsink-based 6670 might just about be okay. Something like the XFX model - VERY short PCB, small heatsink. That may be okay for resolutions like 1280x1024 to 1680x1050.
Run about 16xAF with 2-4X AA [at Multi-Sampling only] and it might be okay.

I'd have to check some benchmarks to come up with a proper choice.

- d3fu5i0n

 

[gmaster456]

I max out L4D2 on my 4650 1gb with no issues whatsoever and excellent fps with no drops our stuttering. Something like a 6450 would be plenty.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Would someone be so kind as to give a recommendation on a fanless video card?

Imagine it being used for light gaming ( Left 4 Dead, l4d2)

Thanks for any advice!

Why do you want a fanless card?

 

[tincart]

My old 4770 ran L4D2 at 1920 x 1080 (no AA) just fine. I used to play competitively, so FPS was very important to me. It was not fanless, but anything at that level of performance or higher should be just fine (depending on how much AA you want).

 

[IonusX]

My old 4770 ran L4D2 at 1920 x 1080 (no AA) just fine. I used to play competitively, so FPS was very important to me. It was not fanless, but anything at that level of performance or higher should be just fine (depending on how much AA you want).

the 4770 even after drivers was a flip flopper. sometimes it did very well, other times it sucked eggs
it also had odd temps and power draws.
so did its sibling the 4730