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Suggestions of inexpensive PCI Video Card (fanless or very very quiet) that'll work with Windows 7 (32 bit)?

Suggestions of inexpensive PCI Video Card (fanless or very very quiet) that'll work with Windows 7 (32 bit)?

I just got a very quiet Dell Optiplex 960 (with dual monitor video card) and wanted a 3rd monitor (only a PCI slot available). The PCI video card I got has a relatively loud (compared to this quiet PC) fan.

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Guest [Entry]

It looks like, if you want to enable Aero on it, you'll need a DirectX 9.0+ compatible graphics chip with at least 128MB ram. For the offerings available at Newegg click here. As far as being Windows 7 supported i would say any of them would have either built in support or have drivers on Windows Update, if not on the chipset manufacturers website (nVidia or AMD).
Guest [Entry]

"Found one on Amazon. (I'll take a look at Taspeotis' as well:

Windows 7 compatible (one reviewer reported the Win 7 scores and says the Vista driver works for 7)
The heat sink looks pretty substantial.
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