On 12/20/06, Jon H <october001@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://towndowner.com http://burntpossum.com
