Crazy HTPC question

David230 · 23 May 2006 at 18:46

How hot would the inside of a lascale LC03 get with sli 7800gt's?? Rest of the system would be a standard clock x2 3800+, samsung spinpoint, PVR card and dedicated soundcard all on a passively cooled asus premium

I'm guessing this is probably gonna be too much all in such a tight space with minimum cooling but I'd love to be able to do it.

Guessing i'll be lucky to see idle temps of 40 and 60 load.lol

David230 · 23 May 2006 at 19:19

agreed, it would normally be overkill but I'd like to play the odd game which I like running the **** ****.

Baring in mind, HD requires a lot more grunt ie HD recordings wherever possible so dont know if it would be that wasted. Not sure. Will try my single gt card and check temps.

I use a VF700 already on the 7800GT. Ultra quiet and keeps temps down qute nicely. Its knowing what things will be like once I've packed it into the lascale.lol

David230 · 23 May 2006 at 19:36

Just noticed your spec Noni, before it got scrubbed..lol

Very impressive!!

David230 · 23 May 2006 at 21:04

Got everything in the case but its tight as expeceted, especially the pci-e card which has a couple of mm clearance between it and the h/drive.

Noise is quite high due to a hiper typer psu. Apart from that it would be no worse than a plasma fan. temps with case cover on are 35 cpu and 40 from the n/bridge despite only passive cooling. That is idle though

trying to undo my mce IR receiver so I can fix it inside next to my VFD.