NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2

Originally Posted by Starbuck3733T
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

Originally Posted by yahooadam
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

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.

Originally Posted by Starbuck3733T
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?

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"

Originally Posted by Starbuck3733T
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.

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.

Originally Posted by Starbuck3733T
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.

Originally Posted by bigz
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)

@Tim S
not realy bf2 is an online game not realistic test compltey (running them thay way you do is far better then what others do tho but maybe add an online test to all of them so you can show what the game is like online with 32/64 player maps{Special Forces tho i do not know if its CPU limit or GPU limit})

connecting to an 64 player server and try running the same test may not get the same results, i know that you can not get the same results as thay mite be more going on like gas nads or arty fireing or just plane lots of players around shoting

BF2 SF tho is for some reson Very demanding and are un able to use high setting on that game or we get low fps or stutering (Dice/EA need's hanging) {the Map The Iron Gator is an bad map for slow downs}

hopeing my new stuff that i be setting up tonight will change it an little but it be with the same asus 7800 GTX TOP card but i got an m2n32-sli , AM2 3800 X2, corsair 2gb ddr800 4-4-4-12, 750w thermaltake quad rail. i see if it was my old suff that was making problems and report on it later on (be geting an 7950 my self soon as i can get one for £300 agane and see if it is an Gpu problem)

when running SF i think 2gb ram is a much bigger advantage
have you renamed the BF2 movies, there were reports that they are (were, or are partly) stored in memory while playing ....
I dont get any lagg on any BF2, but i have 2gb ram so really not allways realistic - it also depends how much crap you have in the background

2gb ram is nessery, first thing i do is remove the movies as you cant skip them at start up, this is an gameing rig (i tell you if it is when i install BF2 on my new pc)

Originally Posted by Rimmer
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 ;)

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