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Hello, |
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On Sat, 08 Dec 2018, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>On 08/12/2018 03:01, Dale wrote: |
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>> I just noticed the video card that is coming requires a power cable. I |
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>> never had one that powerful before. O_O |
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>You've been out of the loop it seems. GPUs have required power cables for |
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>over a decade now. The GPU I use actually needs *two* power cables and places |
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>a minimum wattage requirement on the power supply... :-P |
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*Meh* |
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I miss my Matrox Mystique (first model w/170MHz RAMDAC!) with a |
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whopping 4 MB SGRAM, and not even a heatsink, just the plain naked |
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chip, much less a fan, and it ran in a PCI slot, at about ~4.5W (or |
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was it 5W?) theoretical max usage... |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrox_Mystique |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MatroxMystique2MBcard.jpg |
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I only replaced that ~10yearish ago because my new screen had a |
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whopping 1280x1024 on 17", which those 4MB just won't do at decent |
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bit-depth... *sigh* For 1152x864 on the CRT it was still good, but |
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that screen just got too dark to see anything at all, so I had to |
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replace it. Got a nice (expensiveish) PVA-TFT. Still very nice after |
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~10 years, even with CCFL it has darkend only minimally[1] :) And yes, |
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I'm still fine with 1280x1024 on 17", TYVM :) I could even set up the |
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spare monitor (same size/res) alongside, but I just don't need it. |
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Now, I've got (again) a passive GPU for PCIe (max. 75W) w/o extra |
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power. Main reason: the latest had a fan, which started to scream. As |
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in almost not running. Cleaning did not help. So... No fan, no sound, |
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and cleaning a heatsink is easy, as opposed to cleaning a fan + |
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heatsink combo. And besides, a downward-facing heatsink does not |
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tend to clog up as one that has a fan blowing onto it... |
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-dnh, *darn* Time to clean-out the CPU-heatsink once again too :( |
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CPU-temp and fan-speed are still ok though. |
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[1] I started with IIRC ~30-40% "brightness" as preferred setting, and |
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am now at ~40-50%... Which is good for a 10yr+ old CCFL, eh? :) |
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"Waking up this morning was a pointless act of masochism" -- Girl |
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