NVIDIA 7950 GX2

Yay! Custom waterblock time!!!

-ed out

 

i can think of a way to do it - fairly simple, you have a block of copper on the bottom card, heatpipes connect that to the block of copper on the top card and the top card is watercooled, pretty easy, or you have your water loop go through each card (but that means alot of connectors) all this needs is a slim waterblock really

 

I'm also interested in finding this out also

Can you let us in on the info Bigz

 

all of the 'widescreen' hacks we use are publicly available from www.widescreengamingforum.com

BF2 uses a command line modification and AFAIK, it only stretches the GUI, the actual game is running in true widescreen. It looks a damn sight better than running at 1600x1200 and scaling (or having black bars down the side).

 

hmmm ok, when i tried BF2 it just seemed to all be stretched (with the command line hacks) but anyway, im orite with the black bars on the side, ok its annoying, but the streched GUI looks really bad IMO

 

Bigz, can you do me a HUGE favor and measure just the power draw from the PCI-e connector during a bench run of something?

 

not exactly easy to do, the input through that connector is 3 +12v lines and 3 0v lines .....
How do you expect to measure them

 

On the Aqua-Computer Forum, its says that they are currently looking into a design for a waterblock for the nVIDIA 7950 GX2.

I'm looking firward to it

 

If I had the card I'd use my Clamp-On Ammeter

To get the amperage drawn, then multiply Amps*Volts (12V) to get the Watts dissipated.

 

I'm about 6000 miles from my GeForce 7950 GX2 at the moment.

 

Oh, I can definitly wait. If you don't have access to the gear I can perform the measurements myself - I'll happily put a deposit on the card.

 

wow this looks nice love to see it set up in "sli"

 

TBH I get my filthy hands on these daily
The wattage is give or take 150W..... well that's running flat out

 

Awesome - that's the draw for just the PCI-e connector? Thaaaaaaaaaaaank you if it is.

 

I'll double check for you tomorrow but as far as I remember it's 75w from the PCI-E slot and 75 from the connector.

Will post tomorrow to be sure

 

Thanks Rimmer, I've been incredibly snowed under since getting back from Taiwan at the weekend.

 

Yeah no problem mate. Just double checked 75W from slot and 70W from card. To to say 150W .....is good enough

 

needed to ask an queston are all of your game tests performed Online
like BF2 on an 64 Players maps full server,
More so BF2 Special Forces as we find with Special Forces it seems to slow every thing down i norm only play with 3 settings on high {Gemorty high, Effects High, Viewing distance 100%, AAx2, AFx2, all other settings are low and running at 1280x768@85} and the game is playable at them settings (more then 40-50 FPS apart from The Iron Gator map that can realy slow things down if settings are to high or even if thay are not)

thing is BF2 Vienna (plane Bf2) works mostly fine with every thing set to max Apart from Dynamic shadows and DY lights (more like an speed limit with my single 7800 card)

SF does somting that makes it unplayable when settigns are set to higher settigns

my specs was (sold mobo ram cpu PSU) A8n-SLI Prem, A64 3800 X2 939 OC@2.4, 2gb ram 3-?-?, ASUS 7800 GTX TOPS (OC model)

one of my other clan members has 2x 7800 GTX cards and has the same problem (his pc is faster then mine an little 2.6ghz on the CPU A64 single)


i do like the way you do your tests as others just go of max speeds

 

Hi, welcome to the forums.

We test Battlefield 2 using a single player game with 16 bots. We are using the original Battlefield 2 with the latest patch installed (at the time of testing). Originally, we used to say that 30fps in this test was an acceptable minimum frame rate. However, in light of spending a lot of time playing the game online, it was clear that the single player game was not as intensive.

Instead of moving online (where gameplay becomes more and more random), we decided to increase our thresholds for smooth gameplay. We believe that a minimum frame rate of over 40fps in the single player game should be enough for acceptable gameplay in online multiplayer scenarios.

Hope this helps.

 

can you not use another computer as a lan server, using you host computer as server and client is like double load on the CPU, which result on more computer power being used up then you would generally get in BF2 (considering offline play really sucks)