Radeon 9250, 64 bit-128MB should be good enough for current OS. It support dual monitor with one DVI and one DSub.

Venice 3000+ is very cool. I can use 9cm, 700 rpm 14cfm fan to cool this cpu.

you know, for all these forum entries.... I really never ever saw anyone undervolt p4's. Have we missed something or does it not work? You missed something....:) I ran undervolted/underclocked P4 2.4 @ 1.8Ghz, 1.2V after read information here. Temp load can never reach 43C, while normal setting eas...

It's possible to change VF700 fan mount to connect to graphic card directly. I did it with my Sapphire X800XL. Fan speed can be controlled by stock firmware. If you are not happy with it, ATI Tray Tool can control fan speed. and it spins depend on GPU temperature. I feel a bit safe compare to manual...

thanks Sanderman and Einllel for helpfull information.

I will looking for Reserator in my town.

you can use your 7000 on AGP 8x. I'm using R7500 on AGP 8x.

RAID 0 failed me before. There is no way I will install RAID 0 again. It's completely waste of time and money. With little overall performance gain, you sacrifice bunch of data or OS config. The problem in RAID 0 was not HDD failure as theorical. But more on logical binding. It's very easy to break ...

I'm interested on the answer as well. I'm thinking of installing reserator with AMD Clawhammer 4000+ and ATI X800XL. The question is what is CPU temp and GPU temp expected in loop under reserator?

Which one better, CPU first or GPU first?

Matrox G550 only support DVI up to 1280x1024 and not supported widescreen yet.

the reserator arrived tday,will put together next week and let you know,lm going to check tape at outlets to see if it right,if not will replace the tape,will use the pump that comes with it for now,when it goes,either get better pump to put inside or external one interested the answer as well, I h...

this is the best feature of X800XL, rev at full speed when start-up or restart for seconds then go to silent mode. It's almost the same like highend PC server, rev at fullspeed then drop it.

Thanks Widman. Will the G550 only fit an AGP PCI slot, not a standard PCI slot? There are two version as previous thread mention...AGP and PCI. I have AGP version. My main reason to swap from CRT to TFT would be reduced eyestrain. But would I get a comparable reduction in eyestrain by simply using ...

I have both Matrox G550 and Sapphire Radeon 9250. Both are fanless with great 2D-Video stuff. My comment on both - G550 run much cooler than R9250 - G550 much better on CRT. While on DVI, my eye can see any different at all. - G550 support dual head/dual output, R9250 is single output only - R9250 r...

I want to change NF3 hsf to passively cooled hs, but no way it can be changed. The stupid design of hsf will knock vga card. Damn stupid...

My X800XL load is 63C idle 43C after install Zalman VF700. I live on tropical place so ambient temp is around 30C

perplex wrote:i think the undisputed graphics card for 0% gaming is matrox g550 from what i've read around the internet

Matrox G550 is aged, max DVI resolution only 1280x1024, not support wide screen format at all.

Power consumption wise, it uses much less than ATI Radeon 9250.

Did you have your card underclocked for 2D or something before the change? no underclocking. All in stock clock. with 5.6 - idle /2D for more than 2 hour. - run 3DMark05 test - run 3DMark05 demo - see highest temp with ATI tray tool graph. change driver to 5.5 - uninstall 5.6 - restart - install 5....

If there is a significant increase of OpenGL performance with the new drivers, then you should also expect an increase in heat output, since the GPU load is now higher. Similar problems happened when Doom3 was launched, especially with ATi cards. As I remember, ATI Cat 5.6 optimized by calculate le...

I tested on AGP X800XL Card. Both Catalyst 5.5 and Catalyst 5.6 have the same temperature. I use 3DMark05 Demo, with 2xAA and 16xanimorphic
Room temp 29C
Environ temp 53C
GPU temp 63C

hi gunner I use two 80mm intake fan in series, which is 6V each and one 80mm outtake fan. XP90 make possible for my 2.4B @1.3V to run passively. I made ducting to case fan from CD casing box. It makes the cpu temp slightly lower. Here the picture http://web.singnet.com.sg/~widman/HardwareZone/PICT08...

I'm running 2.4B with XP90 without fan at all. I set CPU voltage on 1.3V. Idle temp is 39C and load temp is 53. I'm quite sure your XP120 on 2.26 will not need fan at all.

i have this problem, anyway I use DVD Decrypter to copy from DVD disc to HDD and play it from HDD. DVD Decrypter is free.

technarch wrote:But did your PSU smell??

more than 1 month, no smell for me.

thank yuit for update the usage, your first post encouraged me to buy Enermax 370W.

Rusty075 wrote:Brand makes almost no difference in heat output for VGA cards. The cards are essentially the same reference design.

Xbit's GPU Power included the Pro and XT.

thank a lot for great site.

hi, To reduce the heat you need undervolt and underclock. Here my case CPU Intel 2.4B stepping C Motherboard Gigabyte GA-8PE800(-L) Ambient 29C (tropical) Presscot HSF 5200rpm FSB 133MHz (x18 = 2.4GHz) VCore 1.50V idle 39C load 48C FSB 133MHz (x18 = 2.4GHz) VCore 1.20V idle 37C load 42C FSB 100MHz (...