Hmm... depends what cooler u got and if its high end or not, thermaltake tidewater cools the gpu pretty good, 80 bucks for water cooling. A vf900cu running at LOW speed cools better than the stock x1900xt running at HIGH speed.137[CSi] wrote:
To answer questions about the cooler. I have no problems with the x1900's cooler. As for the reason for the jump from nvidia to ati, well my buddy was building a new computer and I sold him my 7800gtx for 300 towards my x1900xt.
I would not use any aftermarket cooler at all for the x1900xt or any of the x1800 on up cards due to the fact they cool worse than the stock cooler granted they run a little quieter. If you want maximum cooling for your video cards and noise is a problem for you then start saving up for a watercooling get up or stop crying about the noise.
I switched because of my fanboism for ATI, I've never owned an nvidia card, i've blindly told people w/o having the experience hands down because of the numbers they produce ati is better. I defended ATI from all of the NVIDIA fanbois.
Only to be hoodwinked by shitty drivers from ATI. lots of clipping and artifacts show up as opposed to the 7800gtx. I cant even run fraps w/o the compuer just slowing all to shit with the x1900.
I wanted a 7900gtx with 512megs of ram but they're never in stock and I didnt like the offerings people had.
So I figured if I wait for the new RD580 chipset motherboards to come out I can get a compatible motherboard instead of running the x1900xt on a NF4 platform and probably get some stable networking out of my rig too since the NF4 networking platform blows ass too.
To say the least this is the most stable I have had my comptuer since I put it together and I dont see myself changing anything soon besides grabbing another x1900xt for crossfire just to have it and then build my aqua computer watercooling scheme from there on out.
back on topic... get cutthroat1's rig... decent for price but i would go w/ 3 X 150gb raptors in raid 5
