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Why is this subjective you ask? Well, there is always noise in the background, from the streets, from the HD, PSU fan etc etc, so this is by a mile or two not a precise measurement. We bought a certified dBA meter and will start measuring how many dBA originate from the PC. I'm doing a little try out today with noise monitoring, so basically the test we do is extremely subjective.

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Often you'll see massive active fan solutions that can indeed get rid of the heat, yet all the fans these days make the PC a noisy son of a gun. When graphics cards produce a lot of heat, usually that heat needs to be transported away from the hot core as fast as possible. Noise Levels coming from the graphics card Though air will be exhausted outside the PC, make sure your PC chassis is well ventilated. This remains fine within designed operational specifications but it's warm alright. Once we push the GPU to 100%, the temperatures take a pretty hefty toll and settle at 80+ Degrees C ~ 179 F. In 2D mode the GPU tries to save power by lowering clocks & voltages, therefore running at a much lower core frequency.Īt idle you can expect a temperature of 40~45 degrees C / 111 F. You should see the P-states we discussed earlier, normally these will save you energy. Now a couple of things are interesting here. We measured at a room temperature of 21 degrees Celsius. So pretty much once we fire off a hefty shader application at the GPU and start monitoring temperature behavior as it would be mid-gaming, we literally stress the GPU 100% with our test. Again, this test PC consumes heaps of power.

The IDLE Wattage is fine, though a little higher than the competition. The monitoring device is reporting a maximum system wattage peak at roughly ~400 Watts, and for a PC with this high-end card, this is excessive but remains within acceptable levels.

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System with GPU in FULL Stress = ~396 Watts.

Our normal system power consumption is much higher than your average system. I'd say on average we are using roughly 50 to 100 Watts more than a standard PC due to these settings and added CPU overclock. The ASUS motherboard also allows adding power phases for stability, which we enabled as well. Next to that we have energy saving functions disabled for this motherboard and processor (to ensure consistent benchmark results). It's Core i7 965 / X58 based and overclocked to 3.7 GHz. Note: we recently upgraded our test-platform, which by itself utilizes a lot of energy. From a performance versus wattage point of view, the power consumption is pretty good with the new 55nm products. Bear in mind that you are not looking at the power consumption of the graphics card, but the consumption of the entire PC. We look at the recorded maximum WATT peak and that's the bulls-eye you need to observe as the power peak is extremely important. The methodology is simple: We have a watt monitor constantly monitoring the power draw from the PC. We'll now show you some tests we have done on overall power consumption of the PC. The tiny (2-pin) connector is the S/PDIF lead. The card will work straight out of the box.

Install the driver, reboot and you should be good to go. Once the card is installed, we start up Windows. The PSU is an extremely important component in your PC. I do recommend you buy a decent PSU with some reserves, always.

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Just slide the card into a free PCIe slot, connect the DVI cable to one of the DVI connectors, connect both the 6-pin power connectors to the card.Įspecially with a high-end card like this. Installing the card into your system will be a easy job. Also of note, the new EAH4890 TOP can exhibit up to an 8% performance boost.At this stage it is time to insert and connect the graphics card to our test system. What's that, you ask? It's a feature that adds up to 15% in performance via tweaks and overclocking, mostly from raising the GPU voltage from 1.312V to 1.4V, allowing GPU and memory clock performances to be boosted from 850MHz to 950MHz and 3900MHz to 4600MHz, respectively.

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The EAH4890 Series - obviously based on the HD 4890 - is described as the world's first GPU to utilize Voltage Tweak technology. Now, onto the AMD/ATI side, which is where it really gets interesting. The card size is 4.376 inches x 10.5 inches