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I just picked up an X1950XT. I'm running ATITool but haven't installed any of the Catalyst stuff from the CD. What I'm wondering is should I consider installing the lastest Catalyst control center stuff?
From what I've read the Catalyst software will underclock the card when its doing 2D stuff/Desktop. However ATITool lets me set my fan speeds for different temps. Right now my card pretty much stays around 50c. I'm not sure if thats good or not.
I'm guessing the cooler the better up until the fan noise becomes too much. And I should add that the gpu cooler that comes with the card sounds like a hardryer. Its very noisy and I'm not happy about that since my case is pretty quiet. But I have a PCI card in the slot next to it so there is limited space available for aftermarket air cooling. I wish this mobo had a 3rd PCI slot so I could keep my pci cards away from my vid card.
And one other thing that has me wondering what to do is that I can't seem to control anti aliasing or other settings using ATITool. Can you change those sort of settings with ATITool? Should I go with Catalyst software? Should I pop off that gpu cooler and put on some AS5? And what to do about that harddryer of a gpu cooler...
From what I've read the Catalyst software will underclock the card when its doing 2D stuff/Desktop. However ATITool lets me set my fan speeds for different temps. Right now my card pretty much stays around 50c. I'm not sure if thats good or not.
I'm guessing the cooler the better up until the fan noise becomes too much. And I should add that the gpu cooler that comes with the card sounds like a hardryer. Its very noisy and I'm not happy about that since my case is pretty quiet. But I have a PCI card in the slot next to it so there is limited space available for aftermarket air cooling. I wish this mobo had a 3rd PCI slot so I could keep my pci cards away from my vid card.
And one other thing that has me wondering what to do is that I can't seem to control anti aliasing or other settings using ATITool. Can you change those sort of settings with ATITool? Should I go with Catalyst software? Should I pop off that gpu cooler and put on some AS5? And what to do about that harddryer of a gpu cooler...