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by Rafael Hernandez on September 16, 2009 · 0 comments

In cooling silence is a completely relative term. What may seem whisper quiet to someone is annoyingly loud to someone else. There is of course a way to get complete silence but it used to mean setting your performance sights…

Read more Gigabyte Radeon HD 4850 SilentCell 1GB, quiet as a mouse

by Rafael Hernandez on April 20, 2009 · 0 comments

Striving for the ultimate silent computer means you’re going to have to give up a few things. That high-end CPU and graphics cards are obviously not going to make it into your build and you’re going to be cramming a…

Read more The Zero Moving Parts PC, A Silent Computing Case Study

by Rafael Hernandez on March 16, 2009 · 0 comments

Outfitting your new computer or HTPC with some quiet hardware has been getting easier over the years as more companies buy into the idea that silence is, to some, golden. Asus’ EN9400GT Silent Edition graphics card takes the low-end Nvidia…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 6, 2009 · 0 comments

With the recent upheaval on the high end pushing every graphics card down a notch you’d expect those previously high-powered mid-range cards to be the perfect choice in all situations, the low-power/HTPC market would like to disagree. Sapphire’s Radeon HD…

Read more Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 Ultimate, Beefing Up The Low-End

by Rafael Hernandez on December 5, 2008 · 0 comments

It used to be that a quiet video card solution meant a bottom of the barrel GPU choice with a massive heatsink attached to it. HIS’ Radeon HD 4650 iSilence combines a fanless cooler with AMD’s impressive mid-range GPU with…

Read more HIS Radeon HD 4650 iSilence, Keeping It Quiet