I finally did it, the fans are all out of the system
I did not notice any difference in performance with the third GB of RAM but I did notice a whole lot of extra productivity when I went from the puny 19" LCD to the stunning 30" Apple display. It was hard to find a card that would run the dual-channel DVI display but PNY cane to the rescue. Maybe by next year the gaming cards will catch up with dual-channel high-resolution displays like this one (2560x1600 pixels of joy).
This PC has only one Hard drive - a Spinpoint 160gb. The drive, northbridge, CPU and video card are all water cooled via the towering blue wonder from ZALMAN.
I should mention that the system is networked and I have a file server with all our old hard drives where we store movies and backup data. The file-server runs our Apache test platform. Each of our three work computers keep all user data centralized in a single folder so it is really easy for a single iteration of Back2zip (running on the fileserver) to backup our data from across the network. I have it set to backup once per day to keep network traffic down but I doubt we would notice even if it ran constantly.
Totally Silent PSU:
It's a 400W Coolmax CF-400 400W. She runs hot so I keep the lid off the box for natural airflow.
Totally Water cooled PC:
Zero fans requires cooling for hard drive, motherboard, video card and CPU. It looks like a blue octopus is eating my PC. But the near total silence makes it completely worth the effort!
Totally Awesome Workstation:
Adjustable keyboard tray, headset hook, good speaker system, high-speed internet, google clock-radio and a 30" high-density Cinema display. It's hard to get any work done. Thankfully, there's a media server.
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