Silent Spec using venice 3000

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Hi all,

Can anyone recommend a good spec for around 450GPB around a venice 3000. Need the machine to be stable and silent (no northbridge fan and fanless GFX) but also plan to overclock a little maybe to 2.5ghz (?).

I'm sure people have done this before - I was going to post in spcr as has been suggested at times, but they don't really overclock.

Usage for the machine will be - games, surfing, DVD and 24-7 server.

Thanks peeps.
 
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Gashman said:
good spec above, why zalman CPU cooler though, why not thermaltake blue orb II, there enormous and very good coolers
Don't know much about Thermaltake's, in fact always thought they were just copying Zalman's design/idea :confused:
 
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just a quick question. the Gigabyte K8N SLi nForce4 SLi is it quieter than the Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra that I noticed get recommended in a lot of "spec me's"?
 
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Burly said:
just a quick question. the Gigabyte K8N SLi nForce4 SLi is it quieter than the Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra that I noticed get recommended in a lot of "spec me's"?
Should be since its passively cooled. See here :D

EDIT: & better since it supports SLI :cool:
 
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the blue orb II is a great cooler though, and its also very quiet, its designed like that because its one of the most efficient designs you can make, solid copper base with aluminium fins (since aluminium dissapates heat quicker than copper) there enormous mind and weigh a shocking 1.7 pounds and another problem is there some 14cm across or something
 
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hp7909 said:
Should be since its passively cooled. See here :D

EDIT: & better since it supports SLI :cool:

Thanks for the spec. Is that a good mobo allowing some overclocks? And do you know how the GFX card compares to the old ATI 9800 PRO?

Edit: are you confident if the cooler will fit OK with this mobo with memory installed?
 
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Gashman said:
the blue orb II is a great cooler though, and its also very quiet, its designed like that because its one of the most efficient designs you can make, solid copper base with aluminium fins (since aluminium dissapates heat quicker than copper) there enormous mind and weigh a shocking 1.7 pounds and another problem is there some 14cm across or something

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PanchoVilla said:
Thanks for the spec. Is that a good mobo allowing some overclocks? And do you know how the GFX card compares to the old ATI 9800 PRO?

Edit: are you confident if the cooler will fit OK with this mobo with memory installed?
It should be compatible, see here :)

Don't know much about Gigabyte's overclockability. But, which is more of a priority: no northbridge fan hence silence? or overclocking? If the latter then you might as well get a board that you're assured the speeds you want, whether its silent will be another thing. I like the Gigabyte because its a cheap SLI board, so if you see your system struggling you can always throw in another graphics card :cool:

Preliminary testing showed that the GeForce 7600GS outperforms a GeForce 6600GT and Ati's counterpart, the Ati Radeon X1600.
But the 7600GS is also more to do with the new features it has, being from the latest line of NVIDIA cards. Some benchies here (EVGA 7600GS, more or less the same as XFX) :D
 
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