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On 12/20/06, Jon H  wrote:

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> 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.
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