<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/13/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Yann Lehmann</b> <<a href="mailto:aristide@tiscali.ch">aristide@tiscali.ch</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I am planning to build a MythTV system, and would like to install a<br>NVidia grafic card for software decoding of the recorded shows.
<br><br>The newer cards almost always have active coolers (with fan). Does<br>software decoding use the "heat producing" features of the gpu, and if<br>not, can I just unplug the fan to get a silent system ?<br>
<br>Thank's<br>Yann</blockquote>
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<div>FWIW I have a GeForce2 that I unplugged the fan on, but that was only because the bearings seized. Haven't had a problem over the past few years.</div>
<div>-- <br>Thanks,<br>Devan Lippman <devan at lippman dot net> </div></div>