Need help choosing a quiet video card

[lowy]

I am willing to buy a geforce 9600gt card but i am not sure which option is the most quiet with good thermal solution .. while browsing some reviews i was confused by the different opinions ..
Checking reviews for ASUS EN9600GT silent 512MB some of them mention that it gets really hot under load and others not .
Please if anyone has a good experience with this card or any other card in terms of quietness and temperature give me a hand .

p.s am not intrested in overclocking .

[wickedestman]

Welcome lowy!

one of the 1st questions we ask is... whats your budget?

quietness i would say is determined by the user. I find my gfx card is quiet. others may not.

wrt to temps, i too read about the 9600s having high operating temps. i didnt dig too much into it though

[lowy]

my budget is around $120 max .. my case has a side vent .. should i go for asus silent version ( which is 20-30 bucks more then pny evga msi ..) or any other card wont do bad for me ..

[George Hallam]

When you say silent you want passive cooling with no fan?

Your best bet is to buy a normal HD 4830 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131129) (alot better than the 9600Gt) and using catalyst lower the fan speed... When you say you want silence do you have a stock intel/AMD cooler and some case fans? if so you wont really notice any increase any more noise with that GPU in

[lowy]

Here is my build :
GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
Crucial Ballistix 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800
SAMSUNG SpinPoint T Series 500GB
CORSAIR CMPSU-450VX 450W ATX12V V2.2 80 PLUS Cert
Gigabyte isolo 210 Case with 2 fans

after looking for reviews i concluded that all the parts are quiet .. even the intel stock fan at idle ..
any other thoughts ?

[George Hallam]

Go with the HD 4830 it will be fine be a fraction louder than the stock intel fan on load