Everybody is having a problem cooling their 8800s.
I finally put my in an Antec 900 case, and blew a
120 mm fan directly on it with some success.
If you put 3 hard drives in a box, and they are
close to each other, depending on the make of
the drive, you'll develop bad spots on the disk
due to overheat. Drives lifetime will be cut short
by quite a bit. Again, the Antec 900 gives you
a 120 mm fan blowing directly on the drive bay.
Add an 8800 to that, and you are going to
fry something ... probably the 8800.
An 8600 GT is nice. I have a CAD lab
using those things on P35 mobos, and I
get a benchmark of 140,000 in Aquamark3D.
That is screaming performance, with a cool
running card.
Intel makes good boards. If you get a mobo
bundle from Mwave, and have them assemble
and test it, they give you a good warranty on
the bundle. That is a must. ASUS does not
do that, and I've RMA'd a bunch of out of box
ASUS failures .. and had them send the same
exact mobo back to me .. with the same exact
problem. I will not touch one again. The Gigabyte
mobo bundles have been very stable for me. I
have probaby 100 or more of them in my labs,
and they run forever.
The Antec 182 case is a little tricky to assemble.
The psupply wiring goes under the mobo and
comes up between the back walls of the case.
That means you need cable extenders for most
brands of psupplies. I use the TruePower 550
and only have to extend the 8 pin connector to
the cpu power.
Look at the new pcie-x1 TV cards. They are
very fast, and you won't have problems syncing
audio and video ... like happens with the pci
TV cards which are too slow.
johns
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