Does the ati x800 xt run silently?

My current graphics card is quite loud (nvidia 7800 GT) and I am wondering how noisy the ati x800 xt is in comparison. I read another post that said he would only hear the x800 xt when the machine booted up but not after that. His comment is the last comment at this forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=273349&tstart=1125
Could that really be true? I heard someone else say that all fan based cards are loud. I would just like to be able to find a descent performing card to run Adobe CS4 well without tons of noise going on. Is there something that does that? Whenever I use one of the new Mac Pros at the Apple store they seem to run really quietly yet they use cards with fans on them, I wonder how that can be? I mean they are virtually silent.
Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. It is really frustrating with the noise interring with my being able to think while working.
Thanks

The slot is AGP on a June 2004 Dual 2Ghz, sorry about that. I have been doing dozens of posts on another site and forgot to give my specs again when starting this post. I have had a huge confusing issue with this card. An ebay mac graphics card seller called this card an AGP card but then then someone pointed out that it was only for PCI-e. I went to the site and found that the was true.
Another poster then showed me somewhere else on the nVidia site that claimed it could run both. Then someone was saying that they did make a card that did both AGP and PCI-e but was only made in europe. It's all very confusing if you want to read about what I have been going though you can go to this forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1777222&start=15&tstart=0
I saw some articles on the web earlier about using larger heat sinks and big fans. I asked about this in the forum but no could give me in sight on it or tell me if they would even work on the mac. How did your 9800 sound before and after the silencer? I really want to go back to the silence of my nVidia 5200 I loved how there used to be complete silence.
The thing that bothers me even more than how loud it gets is how there is constant noise it never dies down like with the G5s fans. It is so annoying to be, say, watching a DVD and have the fan be running at full speed the entire time.
I have a couple questions about the silencer.
1. Will it let me keep the the card in my top PCI slot? The two PCI slots above the graphics card are empty and I can sacrifice those slots but I would like to keep the top card if I can.
2. Is it hard to install ie require a lot of technical expertise?
3. Would it be easy to make a mistake and mess something up?
I realized that the 9600 is a slower card but having the machine quiet is a lot more important to me than having it super fast. I am also not doing super demanding stuff. I generally spend my day working in Creative Suite 4 Design Premium. So it's not like I am doing the latest games or 3D animation or high definition video or anything like that.

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