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Originally Posted by Deadmantis
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For my HTPC I use an ATI Radeon 4670 HIS Isilence4 card, fanless with a big ol heatsink on it. It runs fairly cool, and of course it's quiet. I believe I paid 65 bucks for it. I do some gaming on it as well as watch movies and it performs quite well for an under $100 older card.
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Yup. High end Nvidia cards perform just as well....but at a slightly higher cost and almost ALWAYS run a good 20-30C hotter than equivalent ATI cards.
For low and mid-end, ATI cards just blow Nvidia's out of the water. ATI actually updates older cards with new technology where Nvidia just reproduces old cheap model cards.
And again...those cheaper cards are gonna run hotter, and there not be overclockable.
If you've never overclocked before OP, it couldn't be easier (for a GFX card.) All ATI cards use the "Catalyst Control Center" to install drivers, control card specs and everything. There's a "performance" option in there that allows me to easily increase my cards speed as well as manually set the fan to run @ 100 whenver I'm OCed.