i'm looking for a cheap graphics card that doesnt produce much heat. amd prefered. i currently have a saphire rx470 that cooks the whole room. this pc is used for web browsing and video streaming. no gaming. recommendations appreciated!!
i'm looking for a cheap graphics card that doesnt produce much heat. amd prefered. i currently have a saphire rx470 that cooks the whole room. this pc is used for web browsing and video streaming. no gaming. recommendations appreciated!!
9 Comments
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
If that card is running that hot and you're not gaming, you've got something else going on.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Do you need a graphics card for your use?
strax@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
yeah, no integrated graphics. hmmm. i guess i could swap out the cpu for a cpu with integrated graphics. i had not considered that option before.
mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Can you find a used r7 240 or some similar low end cards? They can't produce that much heat. Also, your room has very bad ventilation if it heats up that much. Takes a few hours of gaming to get my tiny workroom from 22c to uncomfortable temperatures (like 26+) and I have a 3060ti and 55" oled heating it up.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Does your setup have an igpu? All igpus are fine for video/web browsing.
I’d probably look at intel b570 if I had to buy a gpu and the driving factor was heat.
You could also try under clocking/under volting your current gpu.
strax@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
no integrated graphics. i will look at the b570. thank you!
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y
Maybe that card doesn't have it, but some cards have the ability to step down their activity, like an idle parameter. Also, It shouldn't be producing a lot of heat if it's not doing work. I had a laptop years ago that used to constantly heat up and run the fans a lot. Once I got time to open it up to clean it, I discovered the heatsink had come loose from the CPU. Fixing that made it very quiet.
strax@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
thanks for the feedback, i'll have to see if there is some kind of idle parameter, it does seem to produce a lot of heat even when its not doing much.
TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Rx 7600 is pretty good from what I hear.