From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gm4of-0007mh-A4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:47:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAK8joH9000262; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:45:50 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAK8gCwU006706 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:42:14 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8076864A7D for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:39:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.556 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.556 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.043, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ZMBuFkutxJmX for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:39:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF826491A for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:39:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GluNW-00059b-6x for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:39:06 +0100 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:39:06 +0100 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:39:06 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: james Subject: [gentoo-user] nvidia w/ water cooling? Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:38:53 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20061117) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id kAK8joHb000262 X-Archives-Salt: 890f9ff2-381e-4397-9b4b-d6c00d09eb9c X-Archives-Hash: fe2ccb572c4c2ac037736240428832f3 Hello, > Date: 2006-11-17 18:36:15 GMT (2 days, 2 hours and 53 minutes ago) I could not followup via gmane on a discussion about high end video cards= , so I'm just posing my latest resonse to the Richard Fish comment on=20 cooling and noise problems: Air cooling is sufficient if you have a good case (/richard smiles at his Antec P150). The main reason to use water coolers is to reduce the noise of the system, so you can use a much larger (and slower thus quieter) fan to cool the GPU(s). AMD procs run fairly cool, and both the case and CPU fans on my AMD X2 4400 system are basically silent even under high load. But the system isn't anywhere near silent, because of that damn GPU fan. -Richard Well the nvidia 8800 comes with water cooling, which should be quieter. Anyone have any issues with water cooling under gentoo? Is this able to be monitored via ACPI or specialized software that works with Gentoo? http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpN= o=3D2665662&sku=3DB52-8004 Are the nvidia binaries for this card stable on gentoo(xorg 7.1)?=20 This page does not list the "BFG GeForce 8800 GTX Water Cooling Edition /= 768MB GDDR3 / SLI / PCI Express / Dual DVI / HDTV / Video Card with 1/4=E2=80=9D= Fittings" card as either working or being a problem. At $800.00 I would hope that performance under gentoo (xorg 7.1) is flawless? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Video_Card_Support_Under_XGL comments are most welcome as I do not want a gaming system that only runs Winblows..... James --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list