Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Solved.Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

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?