Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo <at> gmail.com> writes:
> It's not ATI or water cooled, but I got a GeForce 9600 with a giant > aftermarket heat sink preinstalled > (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814134050), > totally passive fanless and silent, for under $100 at the time I > bought it. I get steady 200fps at 1600x1200 in Sauerbraten, and FIFA > 09 plays nice and smooth in wine. Temperature readings have been > consistently low. I don't think water cooling is necessary if you're > not doing anything special to torture the card (unless you just want > to do it just for the fun of doing it, of course). I've gone the > fanless, heat sink route on 2 systems now and have had no problems at > all after having 2 video card fans die after less than 1 year each of > use. Hmmm, This sounds very interesting. I'm not ready to pony up the hundreds of dollars for retail water cooling systems. So I think now I'm going your route on passive video card cooling to get a reasonable priced 'second-tier' gaming system under gentoo. Beside my target system is only and AMD 4600, but, it has a fan over the CPU, with a schroud that directly exhaused the hot cpu air, directly out the side of the case. Very quite and I got it on a closeout from tiger direct. I do not mind a little noise, just not the high pitch squealing of a fan on a video card....... Any techniques, available in Gentoo, to monitor the temperature of and of the new video cards? This newegg pages shows this About the GeForce 9600: Ports HDMI 1 via Adapter DVI 2 TV-Out HDTV / S-Video Out Did your card come with the DVI-to-HDMI adapter? So do you know anything about getting HDMI out of the the video card? What does the "Adapter" look like? HDMI has software based negotiation protocol, so theoretically, you do not have to do all of the gymnastics with xorg.conf to get the highest and best resolution, when you plug the video card into a large screen HDMI equipped LCD monitor/TV that has HDMI inputs. Does the GeForce 9600 auto-negotiate over HDMI? Has anyone experimented with a Gentoo system auto-negotiating resolution from a video card with HDMI output to a LCD TV with HDMI? curiously, James
