- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Minus sign, I dunno what you been doing to your cards, but Ati's generally run cooler, on account of taking a fair amount of less power than the Nivdea's.
I've been runnning high-intensity games on a Radeon 9600XT, such as EQ2 and WoW. And I've reconfigured it to run Linspire. When I run Motherboard Monitor in the background, all overheats spawn from my ATI. Contacting Radeon, they say "Yeah. Our cards can do that with heavy graphics games. it's normal."
I don't consider it either normal or acceptable for a graphics card to overheat after an hour of play (on average) so I don't tend to endorse ATI anymore.
Have played the same games on a friends PC with his 128 nVidia and it palys great for several hours. Add to that, his heatsink fan is a lot quieter than mine...for a card almost half the price!
And before you blame Linux, It's on a Firewire drive I use for work (firewire being set up as my default boot device) so Windows doesn't even know it's there. I use Win XP pro to play EQ2 and WoW, the primary times my card overheats, and Linux isn't even running then (along with the driver reconfigs patches used to run Linux in the first place).
But, not to hi-jack another man's post, if you have any suggestions on how to fix these issues, please MSG, and i'd like to hear them.
And, actually, this isn't hi-jacking. it can be a valuable lesson for you Killer X. If you're squimish about opening your case, there are always a few local gurus for you to latch on to. We love to help our friends install new stuff. Ask them what chipset they prefer (ATI or nVidia) and they will likely find you the best card for your budget that you can get your hands on
EDIT: Elricsw, your card is an integrated card and not recommmended for halo PC.These drivers are for ME. Is that your OS?
[Edited on 9/30/2005]