Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 02:46:02PM -0500, mark@email-addr-hidden wrote:
>> Hello again, folks -
>>
>> A while back I emailed you for advice on the best motherboard that I
>> could get for a rock-solid digital audio workstation. I appreciate all
>> the recommendations, and wound up buying an Intel D925XECV2 with a
>> Intel Pentium 4 3Ghz processor. I have 2 Kingston 512MB RAM sticks
>> coming as well. I've also got a Seagate 250Mb SATA Barracuda on the
>> way, too. I will use this for the system software and get a couple of
>> bigger drives for data later.
>>
>> The D925XECV2 is a nice board near as I can tell (I haven't fired it
>> up yet) but it does not come with on-board video. It does come with a
>> PCI-Express slot, so my next question is what is the best video board
>> to get for this setup?
>
> "Best?" Depends what you care about :-) For a low-cost, fanless
> (silent!) card that works well with Free drivers, I've been very
> happy with my Gigabyte GV-NX66256DP2 GeForce 6600 256MB card.
>
> With the non-Free drivers, its 3D performance is also more than
> sufficient for my continuing quake 3 habit :-)
>
You can still get 4000-based boards that are fanless and fairly cheap.
Same with 5200-based.
-- brad fuller http://www.Sonaural.com/ +1 (408) 799-6124Received on Tue Jan 16 04:15:03 2007
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