*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).
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