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> Date: 2006-11-17 18:36:15 GMT (2 days, 2 hours and 53 minutes ago) |
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I could not followup via gmane on a discussion about high end video cards, |
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so I'm just posing my latest resonse to the Richard Fish comment on |
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cooling and noise problems: |
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Air cooling is sufficient if you have a good case (/richard smiles at |
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his Antec P150). The main reason to use water coolers is to reduce |
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the noise of the system, so you can use a much larger (and slower thus |
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quieter) fan to cool the GPU(s). AMD procs run fairly cool, and both |
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the case and CPU fans on my AMD X2 4400 system are basically silent |
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even under high load. But the system isn't anywhere near silent, |
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because of that damn GPU fan. |
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-Richard |
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Well the nvidia 8800 comes with water cooling, which should be quieter. |
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Anyone have any issues with water cooling under gentoo? Is this able |
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to be monitored via ACPI or specialized software that works with Gentoo? |
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http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=2665662&sku=B52-8004 |
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Are the nvidia binaries for this card stable on gentoo(xorg 7.1)? |
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This page does not list the "BFG GeForce 8800 GTX Water Cooling Edition / 768MB |
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GDDR3 / SLI / PCI Express / Dual DVI / HDTV / Video Card with 1/4” Fittings" |
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card as either working or being a problem. At $800.00 I would |
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hope that performance under gentoo (xorg 7.1) is flawless? |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Video_Card_Support_Under_XGL |
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comments are most welcome as I do not want a gaming system that only |
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runs Winblows..... |
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James |
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