Optical Drives: In main machine I have a DVD/CD-RW combo as slave and DVDRW as master, as it allows me to copy personal DVD films.
Graphics: X800 XL about £230 (UK) - uses the ATi 430 core, 256 GDDR3 RAM, 490 MHZ memory clock, 400 core, 16 pipelines. all of this means it scores very slightly lower than the more expensive X800 Pro.
Quote:
X800XL
3DMark 2001 = 21574
3DMark 2005 = 4833
Aquamark 3 = 59.28
X800Pro
3DMark 2001 = 21340
3DMark 2005 = 4558
Aquamark 3 = 56.40
Benchmark Machine = AMD64 3400+, Gigabyte GA-K8NS Pro, 1Gig Corsair XMS RAM.
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Some of the Nvidia 6800GT cards are noisy - but Zalman and a few others do some decent after market cooling.