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Brian Wood wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tuesday 11 August 2009 13:41:44 Calvin Harrigan wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Stephen Shelton wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:19:14 -0400
John Drescher <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com"><drescherjm@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Fanless will limit you a bit. Here is one option.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127396">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127396</a>
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John M. Drescher
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<pre wrap="">I saw that, it's on my list of possibilities. Low profile would be nice
though. Those gpu fans tend to be so loud...
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<pre wrap="">Low profile and fanless will be a tall order to fill as without a fan
the heatsinks must be bigger.
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Also, be aware that a lot of the fanless cards will block the adjacent slot,
not a problem if you don't need that slot, but trouble otherwise.
I think there are some vendors that sell replacement GPU fans that are pretty
near silent, sorry I don't have a link to any such, but I've seen them
around.
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I've always used fanless video cards for my FE/BE as it's in the living
room. I also took the fan off of my big Zalman CPU cooler and fastened
it to my fanless power supply. I leave the back off of the slot
that's adjacent to the video card and the large, slow, quiet,
CPU-controlled fan (controlled by fancontrol) pulls air over the video
heat sink, over the CPU, and out the power supply. Keeps everything
comfy with very little noise. Until the commercial flagging gets
going, then the CPU starts warming up and the fan starts speeding up.
But those jobs happen between 3 and 6 AM so not an issue....<br>
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Dave D.<br>
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