From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 1 15:53:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4345016A420 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 15:53:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) Received: from msrv.matik.com.br (msrv.matik.com.br [200.152.83.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FCEC43D5A for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 15:53:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) Received: from anb (anb.matik.com.br [200.152.83.34]) by msrv.matik.com.br (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k11FrBoZ061405 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:53:11 -0200 (BRST) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) From: JoaoBR To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:53:02 -0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060201083957.17f7t5je0agwg8s4@webmail.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060201083957.17f7t5je0agwg8s4@webmail.mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602011353.02860.joao@matik.com.br> X-Filter-Version: 1.11a (msrv.matik.com.br) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.86.2, clamav-milter version 0.86 on msrv.matik.com.br X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: Motherboard and Video Card selection X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:53:13 -0000 On Wednesday 01 February 2006 11:39, Ian D. Leroux wrote: > > > > I try to stay away from NVidia to the extent possible for these > > reasons but you can't really get around it sometimes. fwiw- I > > used an ATI based AsusTEK EAX300. Version I got comes w/the > > passive heat sink so I don't have to endure the added noise of a > > whinny little fan that is just gonna fail every 6 mo's.anyhow... > > Yes, I should have mentioned that passive cooling was something I wanted > too. > Hi I believe passing cooling is a technology which stears down cpufrequency=20 instead raising cooling fan rotation and that has nothing to do with a=20 passive heat sink. Particulary this seems to work very well on amd64 with=20 athlon64 including X2 ones. Jo=E3o A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br