Best and Cheapest Video Card

[rion]

while waiting for gtx 3xxx, I would have gone for 5750 kung alam ko lang matakaw parin ang 4850 ko. lol

with my 9600gt, On Idle, I got a 3:13 secs per meter cycle on a 30% overclocked processor. now just 2:17 secs per meter cycle on a stock speed processor. =\

I'm hoping I can downclock the gpu manualy. and set it to stock or oc speed only when gaming.

if anyone can suggest how to save more power aside from turning it off, it would be great.

[Jun aka Pekto]

while waiting for gtx 3xxx, I would have gone for 5750 kung alam ko lang matakaw parin ang 4850 ko. lol

with my 9600gt, On Idle, I got a 3:13 secs per meter cycle on a 30% overclocked processor. now just 2:17 secs per meter cycle on a stock speed processor. =

I'm hoping I can downclock the gpu manualy. and set it to stock or oc speed only when gaming.

if anyone can suggest how to save more power aside from turning it off, it would be great.

Can't you downclock the thing to stock reference settings through the Catalyst ATI Overdrive?

[rion]

down to 500mhz only. the idle speed of the card. I'm hoping I could downclock it further. same with ati tray tools and ati tool does not run on my windows 7 32bit. weird, I was certain it was running back on my x1650.


on my 9600gt. was able to downclock it to 300mhz, even the mem to 350, while shader * 600. I added a profile to load low speed at start up while oc speed while gaming at back to low speed on game exit. as I understand downclocking started at gts 250 green and gtx260. so the 96060gt had to be manualy done by software.


Update: Riva tuner works fine now... 325mhz-gpu, 500mhz-mem. temperature drop, so as the fan speed from avg of 20% to 14%. measuring power consumption a little later.

[rion]

bleh...Inconclusive results, needs a real test equipment... =(

kanina stock gpu 2:17 sec

just now, downclocked: 3:21 sec
then stock again: 3:13 sec

perhaps the cpu eist and c1e factor, I should have disabled them before testing, to isolate gpu alone...

with my inconclusive results, I think there might be a little difference on the power consumption. but the temp is definitely better on downclocked. so downclocked ko na.

on my 9600gt, didn't notice a significant improvement on power consumption and temp. but sa 4850, noticable sa temp. hope this little findings will help others.

[Revenant]

The wife surprised me with a Palit GTX 275 last night. She didn't want to give it on Christmas night so I could set it up earlier and spend Christmas Eve "playing" with her instead of fooling around with my new toy. Damn, it's 10.5 inches long and has two fans. Arkham Asylum!

[Jun aka Pekto]

GTX 275

Oooooh. Nice card.

I'd buy one. But, I wanted an ATI card to pair with my AMD cpu.

[rion]

nice new toy! now that's a high-end card.

not so happy in my His 4850, more weird stuff with Ati... I get a lag when I open any image for the first time. the second time and the rest, it's fine though... Then, it lags when I press "printscreen" while playing Left 4 Dead 2" had more weirdness on both my x1650 pro pcie and agp. lags with custom skinned windows, specialy with windows blinds...

in fairness, His IceQ looks nice for a 5.4k card. hehe...