Re: [MLUG] good video card choice to run Beryl?

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I have a 7600GT.  It is totally awesome.  I wish I could tell you how 
loud the fan was, but the whole system has so many other very loud fans 
that I can not tell.

Fallert, Adam Christian wrote:
> I am running a Chaintech Nvidia 6600GT, and yes that card does run hot.
> The 7000 series is only a modified 6000 series.  Before I swapped out
> the fan for a water block, that card was averaging about 50 to 55
> celcius just running windows XP.  After running an intensive 3D game I
> checked as quick as possible and it was upper 50s which tells me that it
> was probably in the 60s while running the game.  The fan wasn't too loud
> however.
>
> It should also be noted that I only ran it with air cooling for about 2
> hours before converting it to my water system.  On the water system and
> overclocked it runs upper 30s to lower 40s.
>
> Recently I gave that original fan/sink to a friend of mine to replace
> the bad fan/sink on his 6600.  I used Arctic Silver 5 as the grease, and
> he reports that his card does run a little cooler now.  Perhaps changing
> the grease is the way to go should you get an Nvidia.
>
> Adam
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 1:18 PM
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> Subject: Re: [MLUG] good video card choice to run Beryl?
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> On 4/4/07, George Robb <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>   
> > I second the nVidia choice...
> >
> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814122008
> >
> > Have this in a Dell GX620 running Beryl perfectly.
> >
> > Keep in mind that it is PCI-Express
> >     
>
> Cool; or, actually...is it cool? We were thinking about a fairly small
> case here, and one review at NewEgg suggests that this runs hot and
> the fan is possibly noisy. What's your experience?
>
> jking
>
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