Fanless video cards definitely help with the noise. I had a relatively silent computer that now sounds like an airplane on takeoff after I added the video card.
I ended up simply enclosing the whole box in a separate cabinet. I hate computer noise. As I get older, I seem to hate it even more. - Pat -----Original Message----- From: William L. Thomson Jr. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:18 PM To: Jax-LUG Subject: Re: High-End Workstation - Recommendations anybody. On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 14:12 -0400, Tim Holloway wrote: > I run a FrankenBox with a TT fanless CPU cooler. Unfortunately for the > noise levels, the fan on the graphics card is the same kind of CPU fan > that Pentium 200's used to use. I go out of my way to find and only buy video cards with no fans. I have had to many fail, and a few fry as a result. Plus finding and replacing fans for video cards is a PITA and they tend to be a bit more expensive than normal fans. Not sure a fanless video card helps with noise or heat, just helps with system reliability IMHO. Just make sure something is moving the air around in the box. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] List archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] List archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml
