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im about to get the M Audio Audiophile 2496 and replace the piece of sheet internal card i have...i have a 8800 gt that wont hinder anything in recording will it?...
 
im about to get the M Audio Audiophile 2496 and replace the piece of sheet internal card i have...i have a 8800 gt that wont hinder anything in recording will it?...


should be fine.....as long as you have good drivers for both devices (notice I didn't say the latest).....suck it and see!...
 
why is it titled, 'video card'?

8800GT video by Radeon/NVidia....whateva

mmmmm.........I guess because he wanted to talk about Corsair Ram or sumting?:confused:

or maybe compatibility issues betwwen the 2 pieces he noted?:eek::)

"Suck it and See" is my generic response to most PC issues...:rolleyes:
 
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im about to get the M Audio Audiophile 2496 and replace the piece of sheet internal card i have...i have a 8800 gt that wont hinder anything in recording will it?...

It depends what, and how, you're recording. The 8800GT isn't a card designed to run cool, on low power, and silently. It's a gamer's card, and gamers are the sort of people that'll happily shout to be heard over their system's fans. Depending on how close your mic is to your PC, the fan noise may well be audible in your recordings. You can counter this by manually lowering fan speed using nTune (which you may have to download from the nVidia site), but watch and raise fan speed back to normal after recording, or you may well start to suffer crashes caused by the card overheating.
 
While that is good in theory, my experience with fanless video cards was quite the opposite. The damn things are quiet but the massive increase in the temperature inside the case made ALL my other fans kick on considerably quicker not to mention average HD temps, cpu, and northbridge temps we up also. I will never buy any passively cooled vid card again and my 8800 GTS (the double lane one with a vent to the outside) dropped my ambient temperature inside my case by about 5 C and is dead silent when being used in windows.
 
I've never had a problem with my 8800gt.

It's a gamer's card, and gamers are the sort of people that'll happily shout to be heard over their system's fans.
In my experience gamers are the kind of people who'll spend £200+ on watercooling just to silence their machines and squeeze those last few mhz out of their overclocks but I see where you're coming from :D
 
thanks for the input...

when i put this computer together i did so with gaming in mind however one piece at a time im converting it for recording...


can any of you recommend a quiet video card....
 
thanks for the input...

when i put this computer together i did so with gaming in mind however one piece at a time im converting it for recording...


can any of you recommend a quiet video card....

Anything by Radeon (without a fan)!!!
 
gamers are the sort of people that'll happily shout to be heard over their system's fans.

That's not true at all. Many of us will spend a fortune trying to get our pc's as quiet as possible. If anything because the constant drone of a pc for all those weeks spent playing world of warcraft (no I don't play world of warcraft...anymore) or whatever, can piss us off immensly.

If you are worried about fan noise, and you have money to spend, you can buy super cool super quiet heatsinks to replace the one on your videocard. Or even liquid cooled fanless heatsinks. My roomate just fitted a new heatsink on his videocard and some massive thing on his CPU. You can't really hear his computer anymore. My Pc doubles as a gaming and recording PC. I should do the same and get a new heatsink, but my computer is isolated enough that the sound doesn't get picked up during recording.

I wouldn't bother getting a new videocard for quietness. You have one of the best cards you can get. And from my experience I've found Nvidia cards to be a bit more solid than ATI's. If your going to spend money, buy a quiet heatsink for it. Or quieter case. There are tonnes of ways you can minimize noise without buying stuff like new videocards. If you aren't planning on using it for gaming, you could probably get away with underclocking it for a start.

That said, if you're dead set on replacing that card, and want to get rid of it at a knockdown price, let me know. :p I'll be picking one of those up in a month or so anyway.
 
thanks

ive never had anything but trouble with ati cards....
 
thanks

ive never had anything but trouble with ati cards....

i've never had an ati card with troubles.:confused:
i've never had anything but an ati card.:eek:

PC=Potential Can of worms....I love 'em!:p

You'll be fine JR!!:)
 
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