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On Freitag 17 Juli 2009, James wrote: |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin <at> googlemail.com> writes: |
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> > 106W with catalyst. |
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> > 170W with open source drivers. |
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> Nice to know. Can you be verbose on how you measured these |
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> values. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattmeter |
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> > fan quiet with catalyst (not able to hear it) in KDE and most of the time |
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> > playing games. |
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> > fan extremely loud with open source drivers. |
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> I have 2 of these fanless cards and they are fantastic |
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> ASUS EAH4350 Silent. |
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I have a 3870 - factory overclocked. Not way I can cool that one 'passive'. |
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And there is no need, because with catalyst the fan is inaudible most of the |
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time (except menus in ut2004 or after a while of gaming. Since I wear |
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headphones when I play games it doesn't matter). |
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> > to display video or a 3d game starts there is a high chance that the box |
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> > might lock up in the next couple of minutes. |
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> What is a good game/prog to test 3D with on a given |
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> ATI video card? |
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ut2004? vegastrike? unigine? openarena? nexuiz? |
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