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2900xt owners\benchmarks thread

I realised that going the Shuttle route my Top End PC days were over.Just lately i've been getting the "Bug" again though.
 
Jokester said:
Well I'm just waiting on the mythical 8.38 drivers to appear, hopefully they'll improve matters in most games, certainly the benchmarks look promising.

Jokester
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Did you read the link 3 posts back about the R600 being to hot even for LN yet amassed a huge Freq?
 
Its amazing how hot this card gets all over, the 1900 got prety hot but its like comparing a match to a bonfire. :eek:
 
My XTX used to in my Shuttle.It would idle at about 65c.This 7900GT is nowhere near as fast but it's very cool @47c idle.
 
Gerard said:
Think its time to admit defeat trying to get this to run in a shuttle, it'll run for 10 mins tops before the northbridge is scalding hot and it shuts down. Tried a couple of different coolers on the bridge and no change. Seems the shuttle has finally met its match, a card that does fit inside but is far too heavy on requirements for it to run stably. :(
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Have you tested with all the shuttle fans set to 100% speed in the bios to see if it would still auto shut down...
 
Gerard said:
Think its time to admit defeat trying to get this to run in a shuttle, it'll run for 10 mins tops before the northbridge is scalding hot and it shuts down. Tried a couple of different coolers on the bridge and no change. Seems the shuttle has finally met its match, a card that does fit inside but is far too heavy on requirements for it to run stably. :(
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damn :<
i was hoping it would be ok as i was thinking of sticking one of these into my media pc
 
You must be gutted Gerard.:(

I shall probably wait now for the 65nm cards, they should be a whole lot better in terms of consumption.

Try the fan idea, it's fun anyway if nothing else, always thought mine was going to take off when I did that.
 
Use smartfan, ive truied with the fans at 100% but same thing really.

Funny thing is i sold my dfi crossfire mobo a couple of months back along with my aurora case and crossfire certified psu, now i wish i hadn't :(
 
I never ran them that fast for long, the noise on P2's is awesome at 100%.

Just running them all at 100% is a good way of checking whether it's the PS or the cooling.

I used to use XPC Tools, downloadable from Shuttle, very neat utility.
 
WoZZeR said:
I never ran them that fast for long, the noise on P2's is awesome at 100%.

Just running them all at 100% is a good way of checking whether it's the PS or the cooling.

I used to use XPC Tools, downloadable from Shuttle, very neat utility.
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Will try to find it,thanks.
 
CS||nuTs said:
Did you get to try the card in another machine?Can't remember if you said or not.
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Only other machine we have here is my brothers and going near thats like walking on hallowed ground.
 
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