*4* GPUs? Wow - I take it you've some funky vehicle or aircraft simulator running?
Anyhow, just thought I'd follow up and say thanks for all for comments. I ended up getting a Core 2 Duo E6850 with an aBit I35-Pro mobo. The Zalman CPU cooler is fantastic and the PC is just a quiet hum in the background just as these things should be. My GPU has a heatsink, no fan so I guess thats lucky. A little OT but I also plumped for a 64GB SSD and am trying Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity (!) as my main desktop. From Grub hand-off I get to the login screen in about 5 seconds :-) I was intruiged by the "remote desktop"/VNC/SSH forwarding style suggestions and will maybe try them out as an experiment. Thanks again guys. On 2 May 2012 20:53, Samuel Penn <s...@glendale.org.uk> wrote: > On Wednesday 02 May 2012 09:31:02 Brad Rogers wrote: > > No-one has mentioned water cooling. Very quiet indeed. Can be a scary > > prospect for some, but it does work. AS has been mentioned though, once > > you've eliminated the loudest noise (usually the CPU fan), you start > > hearing other things; GPU fan, drive motors.... > > Heh. If you think the CPU fan is the loudest noise, you haven't heard > a gaming rig with 4 GPUs... :-) The loudest noise in my study (which has > three running computers in it) is my GF's video cards in the next room. > > (But then admittedly, if you're going for something quiet, you're > probably not looking at a box with 4 graphics cards). > > -- > Be seeing you, Games: http://www.glendale.org.uk/ > Sam. Posts: http://www.google.com/profiles/samuel.penn > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -- GPG Key fingerprint = B323 477E F6AB 4181 9C65 F637 BC5F 7FCC 9CC9 CC7F “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” - Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
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