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Originally Posted by grogalong
Hey O,
I'm asking myself a similar question. I was looking at a silent nvidia 8600 or 9600 cards, but I have been reading some reviews that although they perform really well, they run pretty hot, and they draw quite a lot of power even when relatively idle.
I've been looking at this review of the ati 3850 and 3870 cards which seem pretty good.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article811-page1.html
The 3850 has a fan, but is apparently fairly quiet and draws little power.
Cheers
grog |
Hey grog!
I read the review of the 3850 / 3870, I guess I'm worried if these are a bit of an overkill for a Media Center PC that won't be doing anything more intensive than Blu-ray playback?
A friend has a MC-PC with a Gigabyte 8600GT (silent pipe) and it ran perfectly but yeah I heard it does run real warm.
I heard that ATI based graphics cards have better video output to HDCP eg. Blu-ray. Is there any basis to this?!