tanstafl said:
Newegg only carries the x1650Pro, not the Ultimate - but from the
single picture on the Sapphire site, that's a biiig radiator hanging
off the back. My board has PCIe slots fore & aft of the x16 slot so
I'd still wind up losing one.
Yes, the heatsink is big, and you would certainly lose a PCIe x1 slot
on that kind of board. Then take a look at other low-end Dual-DVI
cards. E.g., looking at the Sapphire Radeon HD 3470, the heat sink
looks low enough to allow other PCIe cards in adjacent slots; however,
I would only use that slot for a very low card, if at all, because
using it for a full-height card would constrict the air flow to the
graphics card.
The Newegg x1650Pro has a slim fan that
appears to not rise beyond the bracket boundary - I could probably use
the adjacent slot with a low profile short card that wouldn't block
the airflow to the 1650 card fan. But the slimness probably means
shallow impeller blades - likely only 10mm deep which likely means a
high RPM. Have you or anyone else used this card? Is it a screamer?
I'm not overly sensitive to fan noise - except for high pitched
screamers @ 6Krpm and up.
I don't know about that card, but I once had a Gforce 4200 card with
such a fan, and after about a year it started becoming annoyingly
noisy (before it was acceptable). That's why no fanned cards have
died on me -- I always throw them out earlier because the fan becomes
an issue
.
Just curiosity - why the fup?
If you cross-post, it's generally a good idea to set a followup-to
(and annouce it in the body); sometimes people in one newsgroup go off
on a tangent that's not interesting to the other groups, and if you
have not set up a followup-to, all the newsgroups will get these
postings; this is especially annoying if the groups have a very
different amount traffic; typically the tangential subthread will
develop in a high-traffic group, and it can flood the low-traffic
groups. Another thing that can happen is that the local troll of one
group that everybody in that group has learned to ignore posts in that
thread, and people in the other groups don't ignore him, creating a
huge flamewar.
OTOH, setting a fup-to means that people who want to follow the thread
may have to subscribe to an additional group, which they may be
reluctant to do.
- anton
