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Need recommendation on Dual video card with low fan noise
Have a Dell Optiplex 3020 Small form factor. Installed Radeon dual video cards HD4300 and the fan noise is bothersome. Can you recommend another dual video card that would not have the noise level. Do not need 3D abilities, just business applications. Have two VGA monitors, so DVI or VGA is fine.
Steven Carnahan
Instead of a video card you might want to look into an hdmi to dvi adapter for dual monitor. It is just a cable so no noisy fan. We are using them on thin clients and we have one Lenovo PC using one.
If your display needs are modest then why not go for a card that has passive cooling? That is, no fan at all, just a heat sink.
A wide variety of such cards is available, with a similar variety of heat sink styles; not all of them have gargantuan pieces of extravagantly finned aluminium that won't fit in your case...
You'd want one on which the heat sink fin arrangement was sympathetic to the direction of airflow through the case from the system fans, as small cases require more thought about where all the heat heat from warm components is going to go.
A wide variety of such cards is available, with a similar variety of heat sink styles; not all of them have gargantuan pieces of extravagantly finned aluminium that won't fit in your case...
You'd want one on which the heat sink fin arrangement was sympathetic to the direction of airflow through the case from the system fans, as small cases require more thought about where all the heat heat from warm components is going to go.
With the SFF version of this system, you need (as you know) a low-profile card.
Here's a low-profile card with passive cooling (no fan) ... which will completely eliminate the troublesome fan noise:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133454
Here's a low-profile card with passive cooling (no fan) ... which will completely eliminate the troublesome fan noise:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133454
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pony10us
I like your suggestion. Would it be true dual monitors, or just the desktop extended onto 2 monitors?
I like your suggestion. Would it be true dual monitors, or just the desktop extended onto 2 monitors?
By "true dual monitors" do you mean that you have different displays on each monitor? Yes that is what it is. Not just a replication of one to the other.
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Thank you Gary,
I was not aware that system did not have an HDMI output. I use Lenovo's M model for PC's and they do have one.
I was not aware that system did not have an HDMI output. I use Lenovo's M model for PC's and they do have one.