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Liquid Cooled X1900 XTX Card Reviewed
An anonymous reader writes "TrustedReview's Andrew Miller has posted a review of the new liquid cooled Radeon X1900 XTX card. There have been a few reviews floating around based on engineering samples of this product, but it sounds like the actual card turned out to be quite a sight to behold." From the review: "If you are seriously considering buying an X1900 XTX, then it is well worth paying the extra money for this card as the noise reduction is dramatic. The extra performance is just an added bonus. However, the 7950 GX2 is simultaneously faster and quieter for the same money. The X1900 XTX on the other hand has the option of HDR and FSAA as well as the possibility of running in Crossfire (assuming you can get hold of a similarly cooled master card).
assuming you can get hold of a similarly cooled master card
Indeed, my MasterCard will need some cooling off time after I purchase one of these babies.
I'd rather see such cooling techniques used to make silent mid-range cards with good performance, rather than having it only available with hideously expensive high end cards.
I believe it was in reference to running both HDR and AA at the same time. I don't know if this has been resolved since last I checked, but that was the advantage to having ATI as far as I could tell.
Honesty may be the best policy, but by process of elimination, dishonesty is the second best policy.
Any time I look at buying a card, ATI gets completely ignored because Nvidia's Linux support is so much better.
Why is it that when you believe something it's an opinion, but when I believe something it's a manifesto?
Is there a usable Linux driver
:)
As long as you plan on staying with Xorg 6.8.x, you should be fine. Anything greater and you might be one of the many, many people (myself included) who suffer hard lock-ups when X shuts down or you switch VTs while X is running. I have tried many combinations of kernels and versions of fglrx against a couple versions of Xorg (6.8.2 and modular), and only 6.8.2 was stable. YMMV, but this has been a fairly common issue for a number of folks. Although this makes it sound like Xorg is the problem, I don't believe it is. IIRC, someone over at the Gentoo forums traced it to a call made within the driver.
I've since given up on running modular X with my ATI card and chose to mask it until my next upgrade (which will be NVidia, no doubt). It's been a month or two, so this may have been fixed (though I doubt it). If anyone has an update on that, please do tell.
Good luck.
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
Here are links to the company websites, look for "Silent-Pipe" or "Silent" in the name...
http://www.giga-byte.com/Products/VGA/Products_Li
http://www.giga-byte.com/Products/VGA/Products_Li
http://usa.asus.com/products2.aspx?l1=2&l2=8
http://usa.asus.com/products2.aspx?l1=2&l2=6
I always wonder what the energy consumption for water cooling is compared to air cooling. Does anyone know anything about that?
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So I'll get a video card instead.