- Jul 5, 2016
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Hello everyone, first time poster but long time lover of this website.
My aim is to build a silent (fanless) many-monitor PC for software development. Ideally I'd love 8 or so monitors but right now I'm aiming for 4. After lots of trial and improvement I'm almost there, my only problem are graphics cards. I know I need several to achieve this many video outs, but every fanless card I've tried seems to get very hot. With 2 I get heat problems, I don't know how I'm going to get 4 right next to each other. I have even compromised and added some case fans with little benefit. I don't want to use external graphics cards to keep it neat. I'm not using the integrated CPU graphics because they don't seem to play well with graphics cards. Due to the layout of my case, the heat sinks on the cards face downwards, which I assume isn't normal and can't be helping.
So far I have identified the following potential chipsets:
- HD 5450 (Tried the XFX AMD 1gig: heat sink gets super hot - is this a particularly hot board? Would the ASUS ATI be better; it seems to have a cooler heat sink?)
- NVS 300 (Tried this, heat sink is cooler than the HD 5450 but pretty hot. Sadly having driver problems with Ubuntu. Display sometimes freezes with only mouse moving with open source driver; no mouse at all/sometimes won't boot with NVidia driver.)
- GT730 (Have not tried this)
Are there no cards under 10W max output? Do different boards with the same chip have different heat output? Is what I am aiming for impossible?
I don't want to do 3D, I don't want to do gaming. I just want the lowest possible power that will support lots of screens. No heat sinks would be ideal!
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Pro4-M
CPU: I5-3570K 3.40GHz
Assorted displays
Thank you!
My aim is to build a silent (fanless) many-monitor PC for software development. Ideally I'd love 8 or so monitors but right now I'm aiming for 4. After lots of trial and improvement I'm almost there, my only problem are graphics cards. I know I need several to achieve this many video outs, but every fanless card I've tried seems to get very hot. With 2 I get heat problems, I don't know how I'm going to get 4 right next to each other. I have even compromised and added some case fans with little benefit. I don't want to use external graphics cards to keep it neat. I'm not using the integrated CPU graphics because they don't seem to play well with graphics cards. Due to the layout of my case, the heat sinks on the cards face downwards, which I assume isn't normal and can't be helping.
So far I have identified the following potential chipsets:
- HD 5450 (Tried the XFX AMD 1gig: heat sink gets super hot - is this a particularly hot board? Would the ASUS ATI be better; it seems to have a cooler heat sink?)
- NVS 300 (Tried this, heat sink is cooler than the HD 5450 but pretty hot. Sadly having driver problems with Ubuntu. Display sometimes freezes with only mouse moving with open source driver; no mouse at all/sometimes won't boot with NVidia driver.)
- GT730 (Have not tried this)
Are there no cards under 10W max output? Do different boards with the same chip have different heat output? Is what I am aiming for impossible?
I don't want to do 3D, I don't want to do gaming. I just want the lowest possible power that will support lots of screens. No heat sinks would be ideal!
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Pro4-M
CPU: I5-3570K 3.40GHz
Assorted displays
Thank you!
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