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On Monday 20 November 2006 15:49, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> On 11/19/06, james <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Well the nvidia 8800 comes with water cooling, which should be quieter. |
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> > Anyone have any issues with water cooling under gentoo? Is this able |
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> > to be monitored via ACPI or specialized software that works with Gentoo? |
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> An $800 graphics card!?! wtf!? That's more than I spent on my both |
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> my CPU and MB! |
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> One problem is that the 8800 GPU does not appear to be supported on |
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> linux yet by nvidia: |
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> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9629/README/appendix-a.htm |
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>l. The beta 9742 drivers don't list support for the 8800 either. |
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> Anyway, the nvidia-settings utility can be used to monitor GPU temps. |
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> No idea about the cooling system. |
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> ~ > nvidia-settings -q GPUCoreTemp | grep Attribute |
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> Attribute 'GPUCoreTemp' (tacklebox:0.0): 52. |
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> > card as either working or being a problem. At $800.00 I would |
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> > hope that performance under gentoo (xorg 7.1) is flawless? |
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> I'd probably look more at the 7800-GPUs. You should be able to pickup |
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> two really good 7800 boards for less than $800 and use SLI. But you |
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> might also want to ask here: |
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Hey Rich, |
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Would you know if there are any gotcha's with using SLI video cards? It seems |
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this is getting harder and harder to avoid with current motherboards... From |
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what I understan (yuk yuk) the SLI video looks just like AGP cards. Sound |
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right? |
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Thank you, in advance. |
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Jerry |
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