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