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Many old PCIe GPUs had noisy fans and drew tons of power though. It's not the whole story. You can, however, buy something like a passively cooled Nvidia GT 7
by doubled112 3y ago
Many old PCIe GPUs had noisy fans and drew tons of power though. It's not the whole story.
You can, however, buy something like a passively cooled Nvidia GT 710 for really cheap, which I think is what you're getting at.
- RedCardRef 3y agoJust my 2c. I daily drive a GT710 passively cooled from MSI, it has a HDMI DVI-D and a VGA port. One of the newer GT710 models from ASUS has 4xHDMI. Displayport quality is miles ahead compared to the above on the same monitor. (I daily drive 2x Dell P2419H) If you are going for a multi monitor build then the GT710 is a bad choice if you care about quality. I would suggest something along the lines of a proper GPU which has a silent mode in which fans do not run unless they are under load. IIRC Asus STRIX cards and Zotac cards had the feature and I am sure other vendors also have something similar. Ofcourse the best option would be to find a motherboard with a ton of displayport connections, but I did not find any!
- wlesieutre 3y agoYou used to be able to passively cool a high end card though. I remember having the Accelero S1 cooler, which supported the top of the line GeForce 9800 GTX. Though I think mine was on an overclocked 8600. https://www.quietpc.com/ac-acc-s1rev2 https://www.quietpc.com/ac-acc-s1rev2 Back when a high end gaming GPU was $300
- jaredhallen 3y agoTrue. I'm using an old desktop (2009) as a little home server. The only gripe I had was the worn out GPU fan on the old radeon card. Picked up a fanless Nvidia quadro for $6.99 on ebay. Problem solved.