Palit GeForce GTX 1050 Ti KalmX passive graphics card released

[HEXUS]

First to market 0dB design leverages nickel plated heat pipes and a multitude of fins.

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[this_is_gav]

Terrible picture they've chosen for the box art. It makes it look as though it populates about 4 slots.

I'm not sure how much of a market there is for silent graphics cards now. Most CPUs come with built-in GPUs for HTPC use and for those who do want to game there's plenty of near silent solutions now, which will probably cost a good bit less than this.

[EvilCycle]

This would only tempt me to install 2x120mm fans underneath and 2x120mm fans above it, just to see how far I could cool this thing on only air, which defeats the whole purpose of buying one! The last time I bought a silent passively cooled GPU was on an old Asus 8600GT back in the day, but that thing ran so hot that it put me off for life.

[Xlucine]

Always good to see more diversity in low end GPU coolers - remember last gen when everything came in a dual slot package with at least 2 fans?

[mers]

Looks like a nice toast rack.

[OilSheikh]

This would only tempt me to install 2x120mm fans underneath and 2x120mm fans above it, just to see how far I could cool this thing on only air, which defeats the whole purpose of buying one! The last time I bought a silent passively cooled GPU was on an old Asus 8600GT back in the day, but that thing ran so hot that it put me off for life.

I bought a passive Gigabyte HD4850 and it always ran hot. Despite using an Arctic cooling cooler, the card died eventually. These days I go for Factory cooling. MSi have decent coolers and none of the cards are yet to fail for me

[Rubarb]

Is there really a market for passive cooling now? with most cards now a days only spinning there fans at say 60 degs they are silent until heat becomes a problem.

[DanceswithUnix]

Is there really a market for passive cooling now? with most cards now a days only spinning there fans at say 60 degs they are silent until heat becomes a problem.

There might be a few people out there like people recording music who want reasonably capable but completely silent machines.

But otherwise I agree, my R9 380 and the wife's RX 480 are both semi passive. When the fans do come on, they are only audible during times like boss battles where frankly I am too engrossed to care