Question to nVidia 8800GT users

[BenderBendingRodriguez]

I have one small question to you guys, do any of You have multiple power levels in powermizer?? Is it just me that have only one?? How could i turn it on??

[malcolmlewis]

Originally Posted by BenderBendingRodriguez

I have one small question to you guys, do any of You have multiple power
levels in powermizer?? Is it just me that have only one?? How could i
turn it on??

Hi
Is this on a laptop or a desktop? If it's a laptop, does it enable when
your on battery?

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[BenderBendingRodriguez]

It's a desktop. I always thought that 8800GT has more than one performance levels and here nada, if i am not mistaken then lowering the frequency will lower power usage right?

[Axeia]

Mmmh I've the same card, but don't have the NVidia driver installed so I'm afraid I can't see. (Don't really plan on installing them before 11.2 is out and NVidia has added the drivers to their repository)

My Laptop equipped with a 9600M however has 4 different power levels (numbered 0-3). Which can be found under NVidia X Server Settings > GPU 0 > Powermizer, it lists:

Performance level   NV Clock  Memory Clock
0                   169 MHz   100 MHz
1                   275 MHz   250 MHz
2                   400 Mhz   400 MHz
3                   500 MHz   400 MHz

It has a combobox at the bottom of the window to select the preffered mode which can be either 'adaptive' or 'maximum performance'.

And yes it's quite similar to Cool'n'Quiet / whatever intel named the thing for CPU's. It downclocks the GPU (and the videocards RAM) to lower the power usage. (and heat output)

I am using the (latest?) Beta drivers though, 190.32.

[BenderBendingRodriguez]

Hmmm, i was thinking about flashing the card with an 9800GT card as it is simply a rembranded 8800GT and it is supposed to have more power levels than 8800GT, i solved my issue with underclocking the card but i'd like to have it automatic and also i am greatly surprised that a graphic card which is A LOT more power hungry does not have it except mobile versions