Stefan's Test Setup
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CPU |
Core i7 920 @ 3.2Ghz |
Cooling |
Cogage True Spirit |
Mainboard |
Asrock X58 Extreme |
Memory |
G.Skill F3-12800CL8T-6GBPI PI Series |
VGA |
AXLE GeForce 210 512MB DDR2
Gainward Geforce GTS 250 Deep Green
Gainward Geforce GT240
Inno3D Geforce GT240
Sparkle Geforce GTS 250 LP
ATI Radeon HD 4550
ATI Radeon HD 4890
ATI Radeon HD 5770
ATI Radeon HD 5830
ATI Radeon HD 5450
ATI Radeon HD 5670
Sparkle Geforce GTX 470
Inno3D GeForce GTS 250 iChill
Palit GeForce GTS 450 Low Profile
Sparkle Calibre X460G
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Other |
Power Supply : Antec True Power New 750W
HDD : Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200.10
Case : Cooler Master HAF922 Case with 2 NB-Multiframe S-Series MF12-S3HS@1800RPM on the side
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With the help of the GPU-Z 0.4.8 utility, we could extract lots of information regarding the video card clocks,memory type, pixel and texture fill rate and so on:
To extract even more information, we have used the AIDA64 utility:
Here are the CUDA capabilities of the Calibre X460:
Temperature tests:
To find out the IDLE and maximum temperatures, I have used the Furmark utility, with the Stability Test in “Xtreme Burning mode” and let it run for about 15 minutes. To record the temperatures, the GPU-Z utility was used, thanks to its Sensors monitoring tab. The recorded room temperature at the time of testing was 20.6 degrees Celsius:
IDLE
Full Load
Noise measurements
Before measuring the noise the video card was producing, I have first measured the noise inside the room the tests took place and I found out it was 29.1dBA (with everything turned off).
The next step was to measure the noise the test system was producing, without the video card installed; the value I have obtained was 34.1dBA. Most of the fans inside the case were turned off, but the CPU (43%) and chipset one (30%).
At all times, the sound meter was placed 8cm under the video card.
The GPU fan was controlled by the latest version of the EVGA Precision software:
As it can be seen from the chart, the noise grows linear with the increase of the fan speed. Increasing the fan over 80% or setting a speed less than 40% was not possible using EVGA Precision:
The 3DMark Vantage scores were calculated by summing up the GPU and CPU subscores.
Here are the Vantage subscores separately: