what *QUIET* GPU for £80-100

[watercooled]

EVGA is a brand, not a specific card.

[DanceswithUnix]

EVGA is a brand, not a specific card.

I presume it was referencing the GT460 listed at the start of the thread?

Welcome to Hexus you two. Votes of confidence for the cards are nice, but would be better if you could give reasons for your choice

[watercooled]

Yeah that would be it. :facepalm:

[tieran7890]

If gaming is'nt really top of the list why not try this;

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2gb-m...ile-compatible

This will still play games,and be silent,after all the AMD E350 only has HD6310 but still manages gaming,albiet without maxed out settings,but it'll manage 1080p res easily and play blu-ray nicely.

[DanceswithUnix]

If gaming is'nt really top of the list why not try this;

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2gb-m...ile-compatible

This will still play games,and be silent,after all the AMD E350 only has HD6310 but still manages gaming,albiet without maxed out settings,but it'll manage 1080p res easily and play blu-ray nicely.

TBH I stay away from anything with a small fan.
They may not make much noise, but the sound they do make can be really high pitched & intrusive.

Low end cards also tend to have very poor fan control. The card linked has a 2 wire connection to the fan, so whilst the card can vary the fan speed it can't measure the current rpm so it has to guess based on worst case tables. Result is the fan is always going faster than it needs to, making more noise than it needs to.

You want a single big fan, and you want at least 3 wires going to it.

[watercooled]

Yeah I wouldn't count on that being quiet, but if you want a 6450 (really not a quick gaming card BTW) you could get a passive one and have a quiet 120mm fan blowing over it if you want to keep it cooler. http://www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer-...28160-cores%29
Don't worry about the VRAM size though, 2GB really isn't worth the extra on a card like this.

But you could do that with any card with a passive version - they often run very hot 'passively', especially the high-end cards, so a quiet fan moving some air over it is a good idea.

[charliecola]

From doing a load of research on this the MSI cards with the twin frozr coolers are supposed to be among the quietest for reasonable price.

Just one other thing - if you are building an audio workstation by any chance... the NVIDIA GTX cards below 550 are supposed to cause havoc with dpc latency and prevent low latency audio interface buffer settings - the source of this info comes from ADK pro audio in US who tests almost all current hardware.

[ik9000]

From doing a load of research on this the MSI cards with the twin frozr coolers are supposed to be among the quietest for reasonable price.

Just one other thing - if you are building an audio workstation by any chance... the NVIDIA GTX cards below 550 are supposed to cause havoc with dpc latency and prevent low latency audio interface buffer settings - the source of this info comes from ADK pro audio in US who tests almost all current hardware.

thanks mate, can you reference me a link - i'd like to read up some more on that as he wants it for sound recording so that's very relevant.

[charliecola]

hello, no problem - some more posts are needed to post any URL as i'm a new user... will post links soon...

[charliecola]

ok post limitations over -

Here is the single post from Gearslutz where the expert explains (the link on the top left of the page takes you to the whole thread)... http://www.gearslutz.com/board/7481971-post6.html

To see maker/gpu noise performance at a glance this page is good: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...cs,2977-9.html

With regards the MSI Twin Frozr I was looking specifically at the MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti TWIN FROZR II 1GB (£170) - any reviews for this card or any other MSI with Twin Frozr always comment on great low noise performance even under load and silence when idle with figures that show lower noise levels than most others.

This whole thread is quite informative when building audio workstation (as indeed complete "Music Computers" section of Gearslutz forum): http://www.gearslutz.com/board/music...pc-thread.html


good luck.