From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gl8dd-0004Lf-Hh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:40:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAHIcIn4026972; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:38:18 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAHIaFOl007652 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:36:15 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so2572738nfb for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:36:15 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=VKK/7N8CUOAser0nmxFHBqR/dl/ckgTY7FPP714ncaEo+SOKvht93BKkPWCRhE4KiAvCFA3WmQd8WL9MCpuFMSyNKx9Q4RjtA9x7iuKvgG75mo/WoUM2zbeAEQETitsVNOZKO6tHasHDBByNw14+32+9Y8ZwjzddcU7+n+Y4yX0= Received: by 10.82.98.13 with SMTP id v13mr266915bub.1163788575039; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:36:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.106.2 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:36:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7573e9640611171036o3225be35wb3cb764cd82d04e3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:36:15 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 7800 GTX: opensource driver stable? In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7573e9640611161304o411169afx7c44f3596a0d8d62@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: b99268f3df312b74 X-Archives-Salt: 7076c028-5a39-4716-acc6-96949c1db75c X-Archives-Hash: f11c131e32130ec1c92a74e4d283b3c1 On 11/17/06, James wrote: > My other concerns are how well is the mobo supported under linux? Since gaming > systems run hot, cooling and lm_sensors support seems critical in putting > together a gaming system. I haven't run across any new system that actually supported lm_sensors in about 5 years. Most modern chipsets seem to expose processor temperatures and some fan settings through ACPI. Somehow gkrellm is also able to detect the GPU temperature in my system, but I haven't figured out how yet... :-) > I not whether I should used a 'water cooler' or if > force air cooling is sufficient. If I used a water cooler, should it also cool > the gpu on the graphics card? Air cooling is sufficient if you have a good case (/richard smiles at his Antec P150). The main reason to use water coolers is to reduce the noise of the system, so you can use a much larger (and slower thus quieter) fan to cool the GPU(s). AMD procs run fairly cool, and both the case and CPU fans on my AMD X2 4400 system are basically silent even under high load. But the system isn't anywhere near silent, because of that damn GPU fan. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list