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arterius2 · Apr 20, 2012, 08:12 AM

"the WindForce 5X cooler has five 40 mm fans (the ones usually featured in rack servers) arranged perpendicular to the plane of the PCB, on the top side of the card. "

YEA, this is why rack servers are noisy as f***, ever been to a server room? idiots.

System Name:	Tiger1-Workstation
Processor:	Intel XEON E3-1275V2
Motherboard:	ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77
Cooling:	Corsair H80i Watercooling
Memory:	16GB G.Skill DDR3-1866
Video Card:	Inno3D GTX 680
Hard Disk:	1TB SSD（4X OCZ vertex 4 256GB LSI RAID0）
CRT/LCD Model:	Dell U2412HM 24" IPS + ASUS ProArt 24" P248Q
Case:	Silverstone Raven 03
Sound Card:	Xonar Essence STX--> Xonar Essence One --> SPL Auditor -->Hivi X4
PSU:	Corsair AX850 Gold
Software:	Windows 8 Enterprise

Apr 20, 2012, 08:12 AM	#5
arterius2 Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 236 (0.32/day) Thanks: 13 Thanked 36 Times in 28 Posts System Specs	"the WindForce 5X cooler has five 40 mm fans (the ones usually featured in rack servers) arranged perpendicular to the plane of the PCB, on the top side of the card. " YEA, this is why rack servers are noisy as f***, ever been to a server room? idiots.