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    Nice quiet mid range AGP card?

    Afternoon.

    I'm looking for a nice quiet video card - the card I'm using at the moment (ti4200) has a filthy great fan attached to it and it's just started making even more noise than previously! I would really like something with passive cooling but I'm struggling a bit to find something suitable.

    Does anyone have any suggestions? It needs to be AGP and will couple up to my aging 2.4 P4 with 1gb ram. I do a bit of gaming but not loads so doesn't need to be super duper - also not fussed about it being bundled with lots of *extras* - don't need them and don't want them!

    Any ideas?

    Ta,

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    How much do you want to spend?

    All of the below will beat a ti4200 and have dx9
    £35ish radeon 9500 pro
    £60/70 radeon 9700 pro
    £100 radeon 9800 pro
    £130 nvidia 6600

    Prices maybe a little off, and do you want to buy second hand or new?

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    x800xl imo about £200 but worth every penny

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    Cheers for the replies.
    Would be looking to buy new - I'll check out the suggestions below.

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    how about the HIS 9800 PRO. should come with an arctic-cooler for around £130ish

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    Buy a 6800GT with a Zalman Vf-700, absolutely brilliant.

    Completely silent, only problem is that it makes my Samsung Spinpoints sound louder (I thought they were meant to be the quietest)

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    If the only problem with the Ti4200 is the noise, just replace the HSF.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oralpain
    If the only problem with the Ti4200 is the noise, just replace the HSF.
    ditto, no point in spending money if it works fine, a new hsf will be under 20 quid

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    Hmmm - I hadn't though of replacing the fan. The card I've got is an ABIT GeForce Ti 4200 OTES - the cooling thingy is a bit fancy and I think might be a bit of a beast to remove and replace? Would it be possible to remove and replace the cooling unit without too much trouble?

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    yea have a look at it usually there is jsut a few things holding it down. u could try their website. u mite get more details there

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