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Originally Posted by warriorpoet
Not to sound too n00bish (long-time hardware geek, 1st time WC geek), but what is/ how can I do the "bucket fill flow test", and what will it tell you?
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Check out the
www.overclockers.com.au WIKI for how to.
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Originally Posted by warriorpoet
Two questions:
1. The x1900xt card consumes 125w+ at load, are you sure the GPU gives off only 50w?
2. My CPU, according to an admittedly inaccurate estimation program, consumes ~163w at load (dual-core, 1.5v)
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Well, marketing departments like to sound cool. The data sheets I refered to for the Opterons were posted as a link from OCAU's news page a while back. Basically most of their CPUs are 89W items. Now that's standard Mhz and Voltage, so no doubt tweaking will impact.
I struggle to accept that a video card will thus put out more watts as heat from the GPU block (as distinct from energy consumed) as comes out of a dual core Opteron.
Just let me know what wattages to use and I will re-approximate.