The best passively cooled GC.

[noriseghir]

Can anyone tell me what would be the best passively cooled graphics Card of the moment.(on a performence / max-temperature ratio criteria)

I got a very negative experience with a Gigabyte P/C 7600 GT ( frequent over heating)
I work in a hot environement ~ 30°C.

Thanks

 

[iBPJohn]

Why does it need to be passive?

The 9600GT seems to be the best right now

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...=BESTMATCH&srchInDesc=

 

[error8]

If you work in a hot room, why on earth would you want to use a passive cooled graphics card??? Have you noticed lately, that even the active cooled graphic cards tend to work very close to their thresholds and so getting into stability issues!?

Buy yourself a "normal" card, depending on your budget and get an aftermarket cooler like Accelero S1 and mount it on the card. If you don't like doing this, then search for a card with a good active cooler, that makes less noise then the stock cooled cards. And tell us your budget, so we could now what to recommend you.

 

[noriseghir]

My budget for the video card: ~ 100 $.
My motivations: I try to find a way to build a pc with the minimum mecanical parts : CPU fan, no HDD (SSD). The Cpu have to be very Cool (exp: Celeron 220 @1.2Ghz) and with such a CPU i need a GC that handle H.264/VC1 decoding + Vista Aero GUI.

Ps : very dusty environement.