low power system that drives three 24" monitors

Palindroman · Post by **Palindroman** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:45 am

Through the VGA subforum I found some power consumption figures for the cards I'm contemplating for this build:

HD 3650 8W-31W
HD 3470 ?W-25W
HD 3450 7W-10W

If this is correct then there's a good chance even the HD3650 will fit in my setup.

Palindroman · Post by **Palindroman** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:35 pm

Palindroman wrote: If this is correct then there's a good chance even the HD3650 will fit in my setup.

Nope, SurroundView works only with HD3400 if I'm not mistaken. I've chosen to go for the HD3470. It should definitely fit in the picoPSU power envelope but I'll check.

I'm still not sure about performance but I've left that to the client to decide and did him a final offer. If it goes through I'll report somewhere on the whole project, as I find it quite interesting.

Thanks for the help!

Palindroman · Post by **Palindroman** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:56 am

I made a mistake. The visualisations I spoke about will be 2D only, not 3D. They will be using Flash Player for a visualisation that is maximised and should stretch over all three screens.

Anyone has a clue as to whether my proposed combination of 780G/HD3470 will be able to deliver enough performance for this?

dragmor · Post by **dragmor** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:09 pm

Palindroman wrote:Anyone has a clue as to whether my proposed combination of 780G/HD3470 will be able to deliver enough performance for this?

Since your talking 2D flash animation I would think that the performance would be entirely CPU bound and not use the GPU at all.

Also make sure to check out some 3rd party monitor software to make things easy for you e.g. Ultramon

Palindroman · Post by **Palindroman** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:11 am

Thanks, Dragmor. I'll download the trial-version of Ultramon and try it out.