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geekmortel
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Submitted by geekmortel on October 13, 2006 - 12:17am.

sooo heres the deal. im almost done building my computer and im stuck on decideing on which video card I really want. im currently looking at

2 NVIDIA Geforce 7950 GT 512MB

or

1 NVIDIA Geforce 7950 GX2 1GB

 

the price diffrence is about a dollar and as far as I can tell, even if you run two GT 512s it seems that the 7950 GX still hardly out clocks it. the only thing im worried about is the heat spread diffrence. im not sure if itll be better to run just one dual video card in one pci slot or two video cards in seperate pci slots. I currently have a Coolermaster Aquagate Mini R80 Liquid Cooling Fan to cool everything down.

any input would be killer. this is the last piece i need and im to damn indescisive.

‹ Dell Inspiron 1000 memory


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foambrush
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October 13, 2006 - 5:38pm

Well the mini is a nice in between solution from air and water, but....... 2 cards will raise the case temp higher than 1 and the mini will have issues with that because the case temp rises so does the temp of the fluid inside the rad, should also consider the power draw of 2 cards Vs 1 also may want to check into an after market cooler for either card andway thats just my opinion

Oh check out SVC.com and get the aqugate and a 2nd rad dropped my temps 11C and its a super simple setup for under 100$ and you can add a watercooler for the vid card

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Video card opinion: Isaac ??
October 13, 2006 - 12:34pm

I would just flip a coin LOL!

Maybe Issac Isaac will come along and give his opinion..



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November 6, 2006 - 11:22pm

do you have any idea how pedonic I am about the correct spelling of my name?... oh but don't worry, it's just for play....

anyway, it's probably too late for my input; but I second everything Foambrush said.



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