On Saturday 06 November 2004 10:08, Johan Nielsen wrote:
It's not for gaming only serious work.
DVI / TV-OUT would be nice so I could work floating on the sofa ;-) (Then I would like the playing field to be a little bigger :D)
Passive cooling preferred (noise = deprecated). There will be plenty of other hardware contributing to that account.
3D performance not really an issue.
Good resolution in console mode would be nice (I have no idea how well nVidia drivers do whatsoever).
Your experience would be highly appreciated.
Johan I have two Nvidia cards in my machine, one is a fx5200 AGP and the other is a Geforce2 PCI card. These cards a slightly old now and the fans have failed with age. I have simply replaced the fans with Zalman passive cooling heatsinks, hence no noise. As I don't do much gaming the cards don't generate too much heat and the heatsinks can just about cope. I also use a Zalman cooler on the CPU as I found this to be much quieter than the stock AMD heatsink and fan.
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