Well, a Leadtek 9800GT arrived at the office via a courier yesterday afternoon. There are several differences between this card and the original Galaxy. The first and most obvious is that the Leadtek doesn't have plastic
cowling that allows hot air to be expelled towards the DVI plugs and out of the case (this may present a problem in summer). The other difference that has me a bit confused is that the Leadtek doesn't require the 6-pin power cord that most the faster cards do. I'm wondering if this means it is a low power version.
cowling that allows hot air to be expelled towards the DVI plugs and out of the case (this may present a problem in summer). The other difference that has me a bit confused is that the Leadtek doesn't require the 6-pin power cord that most the faster cards do. I'm wondering if this means it is a low power version.I have elected to install it in my AMD X2 as it is connected to a DVI capable monitor. This machine runs Ubuntu and used to be home to the Galaxy 8600GT. The old 8600GT has been moved to the Windoze Celeron as it has a VGA plug.
The new card has been running overnight and has completed a couple of SETI work units as well as a GPUGrid work unit. I won't get too excited yet as the Galaxy only started presenting problems after a couple of weeks.
The new card has been running overnight and has completed a couple of SETI work units as well as a GPUGrid work unit. I won't get too excited yet as the Galaxy only started presenting problems after a couple of weeks.
No comments:
Post a Comment