On Freitag 12 Dezember 2008, James wrote: > Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo <at> gmail.com> writes: > > It's not ATI or water cooled, but I got a GeForce 9600 with a giant > > aftermarket heat sink preinstalled > > (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814134050), > > totally passive fanless and silent, for under $100 at the time I > > bought it. I get steady 200fps at 1600x1200 in Sauerbraten, and FIFA > > 09 plays nice and smooth in wine. Temperature readings have been > > consistently low. I don't think water cooling is necessary if you're > > not doing anything special to torture the card (unless you just want > > to do it just for the fun of doing it, of course). I've gone the > > fanless, heat sink route on 2 systems now and have had no problems at > > all after having 2 video card fans die after less than 1 year each of > > use. > > Hmmm, > > This sounds very interesting. I'm not ready to pony up the hundreds of > dollars for retail water cooling systems. So I think now I'm going > your route on passive video card cooling to get a reasonable priced > 'second-tier' gaming system under gentoo. Beside my target system > is only and AMD 4600, but, it has a fan over the CPU, with a schroud > that directly exhaused the hot cpu air, directly out the side of the > case. Very quite and I got it on a closeout from tiger direct. I do > not mind a little noise, just not the high pitch squealing of a fan > on a video card....... > > Any techniques, available in Gentoo, to monitor the temperature > of and of the new video cards?
with nvidia: nvidia-settings with ati: aticonfig --odgt
