----- Original Message ----- From: "mike wilson" Subject: Re: OT - Dual DVI Video Cards
> > 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. 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. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
