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Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> It's not ATI or water cooled, but I got a GeForce 9600 with a giant |
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> aftermarket heat sink preinstalled |
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> (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814134050), |
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> totally passive fanless and silent, for under $100 at the time I |
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> bought it. I get steady 200fps at 1600x1200 in Sauerbraten, and FIFA |
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> 09 plays nice and smooth in wine. Temperature readings have been |
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> consistently low. I don't think water cooling is necessary if you're |
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> not doing anything special to torture the card (unless you just want |
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> to do it just for the fun of doing it, of course). I've gone the |
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> fanless, heat sink route on 2 systems now and have had no problems at |
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> all after having 2 video card fans die after less than 1 year each of |
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> use. |
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Hmmm, |
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This sounds very interesting. I'm not ready to pony up the hundreds of |
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dollars for retail water cooling systems. So I think now I'm going |
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your route on passive video card cooling to get a reasonable priced |
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'second-tier' gaming system under gentoo. Beside my target system |
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is only and AMD 4600, but, it has a fan over the CPU, with a schroud |
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that directly exhaused the hot cpu air, directly out the side of the |
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case. Very quite and I got it on a closeout from tiger direct. I do |
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not mind a little noise, just not the high pitch squealing of a fan |
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on a video card....... |
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Any techniques, available in Gentoo, to monitor the temperature |
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of and of the new video cards? |
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This newegg pages shows this About the GeForce 9600: |
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Ports |
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HDMI 1 via Adapter |
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DVI 2 |
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TV-Out HDTV / S-Video Out |
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Did your card come with the DVI-to-HDMI adapter? |
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So do you know anything about getting HDMI out of the the video card? |
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What does the "Adapter" look like? HDMI has software based negotiation |
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protocol, so theoretically, you do not have to do all of the gymnastics |
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with xorg.conf to get the highest and best resolution, when you plug |
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the video card into a large screen HDMI equipped LCD monitor/TV |
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that has HDMI inputs. Does the GeForce 9600 auto-negotiate over HDMI? |
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Has anyone experimented with a Gentoo system auto-negotiating resolution |
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from a video card with HDMI output to a LCD TV with HDMI? |
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curiously, |
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James |
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