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Old 10-02-2008, 10:26 PM
jessecoffey jessecoffey is offline
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Confused on what to do.

I have kind of a complex situation. Sorry in advance if it is confusing.

I have a SageTV Media Center server running with a 2 extenders feeding the TV's in the house. The server is in my bedroom and I use it to watch TV with a 22 inch LCD monitor.

Right now I feed it with an AGP ATI x800xl video card, but it is extremely loud.
I was looking at coolers available for the card that do not take any PCI slots up and the only ones I could find were in the $40-50 range. For that amount of money I can just buy a newer generation HD3x50 series card. Though would these be any quieter? I also have a 6600gt laying around but its even louder than the x800xl and 6600gt AGP coolers are very hard to find.

The other option I was considering was that I have a spare client license laying around. Do you think if I hooked up the 2nd monitor to my main rig in my sig that I could play casual games like WoW while watching TV? (I doubt id be watching tv while playing anything higher than WoW) I have an extra 8400gs laying around I could use if the 8600gt cant handle it.
Does Sage play nicely with dual monitor set ups?

I would really like to go with the client option as I've been wanting to turn the Sage Server into a headless WHS anyway. But not being able to watch TV while playing wow would be a deal breaker... (raiding bores me).

Sorry if this just seemed like rambling but I've been weighing my options for a while now and just cannot make up my mind on what to do.
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1x MediaMvp - 27" Tube (roommate)
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