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> From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2007/10/31 Wed AM 12:25:54 GMT
> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net>
> Subject: Re: OT - Dual DVI Video Cards
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> From: "mike wilson"
> Subject: Re: OT - Dual DVI Video Cards
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> > This is interesting. I'm in the process of upograding my own box and am
> > considering an ASUS motherboard with SLi - two graphics cards running
> > simultaneously. This is, of course, designed for gaming but I am thinking
> > that I might be able to run them at a much lower "intensity" and use a
> > silent cooling system.
> >
> > Anyone got any thoughts about that?
>
> The new ASUS boards are quite nice. They are doing all sorts of things to
> get passive cooling to keep fan noise down. The SLI boards are getting good
> reports, and aren't killer expensive.
I can get an early one for £30. 8-))) I'm heading that way as they seem to
have provision for IDE as well as sata drives. As I have a HDD and DVDRW that
are virtually brand new and one more of each that are only slightly older, I'm
reluctant to head down the totally SATA route at the moment. I reason that a
£30 MB and an equivalent processor is going to bump up performance by a factor
of about four. I can then add drives as they fail and change MB once I am
totally switched to SATA.
Just looking for the quietest solution, now.
> The higher end ASUS boards will also support 8 SATA devices, and dual RAID
> and that sort of thing.
> I bit the bullet and am having another HD put into the new rig. The tech is
> splitting the C drive into a striped array, and then putting 2 drives onto a
> mirrored array for back up.
> He figures that that, along with the I-Ram will make the machine pretty
> responsive.
> Do get a well designed case though. I paid almost as much for my case as I
> did for the motherboard, but it has 2 great big fans that move a lot of air
> without a lot of noise, and good sound baffling built in.
> My new computer is about 1/3 the noise of the one I am replacing it with,
> and I'm sure that most of that is becaue of the good case.
> If you want a really quiet machine, you can get liquid cooling systems for
> graphics cards as well as the CPU and memory. You can put the radiator and
> fan in another room if you so choose.
> I realize this says nothing about dual video cards. I'm thinking that two
> fans are probably going to make more noise than one though.
My hope is that, not using them to their full capability, I might be able to
get away with a fanless or low noise cooling system for them. The new MB will
also allow mer to make use of the newish power supply's noise reducing
features, too.
I'm making my own case from a derelict one from work. As it's going to have a
(gasp!) designed airflow, I thought it might look good in British Racing Green.
My next door neighbour builds cutting-edge-spec gaming machines for people with
loads of money. I'll be getting plenty of castoffs like low-section data
cables ("I'm not having _blue_ ones!") to help fufil my aims.
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