Monster consuming can be reduced?
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I have an ATI 4870 in my full time internet connected computer with Vista, Does anyone know if Can I install a second graphic card and deactivate the 4870 when I want? to reduce consumption, I mean, to put the 4870 OFF? Or with only one graphic card to set it off in Vista, or Linux?
Juan Pablo G.C. Overrider Blog
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I have an ATI 4870 in my full time internet connected computer with Vista, Does anyone know if Can I install a second graphic card and deactivate the 4870 when I want? to reduce consumption, I mean, to put the 4870 OFF? Or with only one graphic card to set it off in Vista, or Linux?
Juan Pablo G.C. Overrider Blog
You can have as many graphics cards as you like. Only the ones that are running a monitor, are going to be doing anything.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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You can have as many graphics cards as you like. Only the ones that are running a monitor, are going to be doing anything.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Depends on wheter they are connected in SLI or not, if SLI is engaged only 1 card can have a monitor but both will be working. Ofcourse this is probably not the case for him, so you would be right but I'v found in the past that it sometimes gives problems, such as when booting one card is used and in windows the other (I know strange but it happend), so I would still recommend to at least disable it in the hardware
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I have an ATI 4870 in my full time internet connected computer with Vista, Does anyone know if Can I install a second graphic card and deactivate the 4870 when I want? to reduce consumption, I mean, to put the 4870 OFF? Or with only one graphic card to set it off in Vista, or Linux?
Juan Pablo G.C. Overrider Blog
The 4870 will consume about 60-70 watts when idle. It won't matter if you have a monitor connected or not. There might be a tool around that could put the card into "deep sleep", I don't know. Google is your friend.
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I have an ATI 4870 in my full time internet connected computer with Vista, Does anyone know if Can I install a second graphic card and deactivate the 4870 when I want? to reduce consumption, I mean, to put the 4870 OFF? Or with only one graphic card to set it off in Vista, or Linux?
Juan Pablo G.C. Overrider Blog
There are laptops which support transition from dedicated video card to the one integrated into chipset to reduce power consumption. So yes, Vista support this, but I don't know whether you need additional software or that video card has to have hardware support for that feature.
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I have an ATI 4870 in my full time internet connected computer with Vista, Does anyone know if Can I install a second graphic card and deactivate the 4870 when I want? to reduce consumption, I mean, to put the 4870 OFF? Or with only one graphic card to set it off in Vista, or Linux?
Juan Pablo G.C. Overrider Blog
In Vista I would start by disabling the ATI card from Device Manager and making sure that "PCI Operating System" or similar is enabled in the BIOS. I would test the power consumption with the device enabled and with it disabled using UPS software or the Power Options in Control Panel to see if it makes any difference. Alas, some BIOSes always initialize every PCI device attached to the system, even with the PCI OS option enabled, only to have the OS put those devices into power-saving mode or disable them.
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I have an ATI 4870 in my full time internet connected computer with Vista, Does anyone know if Can I install a second graphic card and deactivate the 4870 when I want? to reduce consumption, I mean, to put the 4870 OFF? Or with only one graphic card to set it off in Vista, or Linux?
Juan Pablo G.C. Overrider Blog
Dunno about ATI, but nVidia boards with an integrated GF8000 series will switch between onboard and PCIe gfx on demand to conserve power.
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You can have as many graphics cards as you like. Only the ones that are running a monitor, are going to be doing anything.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
also depends on CUDA. You can address each graphics card by number 0,1,2,3 even though only 0 is hooked to a monitor.