On 12/20/06, Jon H <october001@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> As for graphics card? It is exactly as Kjetil has said, without meaning to,
> I'm sure... it's *either* "a lot of heat OR a large fan". Which do you
> prefer? Modern cards, at least Nvidia's, are almost dead silent in relation
> to ambient noise levels in a recording enviroment. Especially if you plan
> on running anything that requires OpenGL accelloration or VSTi
> compatibility, as many of them are quite graphically intensive. If you run
> dual monitors as I have suggested then *definately* pass on anything that
> doesn't have dedicated active cooling! Anything that relies on passive
> cooling (without getting into water cooling and other exotics) is just
> asking for trouble in this sort of enviroment.
I love my Matrox G450. It's stupidly old and has few features - I
don't know if it can do much 3D or not, but I don't really care. It's
got two vga outs, it's passively cooled, and it doesn't seem to get in
the way. I run it in a computer in a garage that I'm just now getting
around to insulating - over the past summer ambient temperature was
often in the mid 90's F, sometimes higher, and the computer ran 24/7
with no troubles.
-- daneasley@email-addr-hidden dan@email-addr-hidden dan@email-addr-hidden http://towndowner.com http://burntpossum.comReceived on Thu Dec 21 20:15:04 2006
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