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I need a new Video card - PCIe 2.0 x16 full height okay - fanless desired

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CountryBumkin:
My MSI GT640 is going bad. What do you recommend I replace it with?

This is for an HTPC used for watching Movies (DVD and BD) (with madVR). I'm not too concerned with power economy but I would like to go fanless. I have fans on the case now so there is air flow and it goes in a large Grandia series Silverstone case. I mostly want to keep things as quite as possible. The current card has gotten very loud and distracting.

I've read that a DDR5 equipped video card is ideal. Looking on Newegg for "fanless" really limits my choices. I see an "R7 250" fanless card for around $100. Maybe my fanless desire will need to be reconsidered.

What would you recommend?

mojave:
Both the  MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G and the ASUS STRIX GTX 970 are completely silent (no fans) until the temperature gets to 55C+. I think the temp limit might be higher on the STRIX. I have the MSI and run the fans at about 20% all the time and still can't hear it. I have the Silverstone Grandia GD07 and I don't think these cards will fit without some case modification. You can see some pictures in my Haswell build thread.

You might also consider the ASUS STRIX GTX 750 Ti.

Hendrik:
The GTX 960 should be released tomorrow if the rumors hold, and it might have similar hybrid-cooling designs as the 970/980.
For completely passive, the GTX 750 may have a few choices, and for video applications quite powerful too. Although good coolers are virtually silent.

CountryBumkin:
Thanks. I'm going to see if I can order one tonight.

mwillems:
I have an Asus Strix 970 and it is completely silent in almost all daily use circumstances.  In most cases when its fan even spins up my cpu fans are already much louder, etc.  It's easily the quietest "fast" video card I've ever owned.

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