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<blockquote data-quote="kszabo" data-source="post: 246009" data-attributes="member: 61646">Mascot, thanx for your nice and thorough report &quot;nVidia vs. ATi&quot;. Interesting point is the HDMI audio support, I did not know about this.But who says that the NB of the 780G is hot? I guess the nVidia will be even hotter. I did not find any reports. The Asus version of the 780G has much bigger heat sink on the NB as the Gigabyte, this shows that some are having concerns about this.Systems with 780G have about 150W power consumption under full load (CPU, RAM, everything together). The 780G NB is built with 55nm technic. it means it need less power than the Intel or nVidia pedants. Where should the big heat come from then? I don´t believe it is a problem. The smart guys reporting hot NBs are using a wrong tool maybe to read out Temps (like my Asus Pundit Barebone with 690G chipset gives totally false Temp measurements with the Asus tool, I have to manually configure Speedfan to get the right temps).A good compromise: use HybridCrossFire with a 40 € ATi 3450HD passive cooled. Without load the onboard GFX shuts down, under full load you get a performance boost of 2x with the IGP. Low power consumption of Northbridge, great 3D performance if needed. And you profit from the dedicarted Video-RAM of the card (speed and RAM for OS spared)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kszabo, post: 246009, member: 61646"] Mascot, thanx for your nice and thorough report "nVidia vs. ATi". Interesting point is the HDMI audio support, I did not know about this. But who says that the NB of the 780G is hot? I guess the nVidia will be even hotter. I did not find any reports. The Asus version of the 780G has much bigger heat sink on the NB as the Gigabyte, this shows that some are having concerns about this. Systems with 780G have about 150W power consumption under full load (CPU, RAM, everything together). The 780G NB is built with 55nm technic. it means it need less power than the Intel or nVidia pedants. Where should the big heat come from then? I don´t believe it is a problem. The smart guys reporting hot NBs are using a wrong tool maybe to read out Temps (like my Asus Pundit Barebone with 690G chipset gives totally false Temp measurements with the Asus tool, I have to manually configure Speedfan to get the right temps). A good compromise: use HybridCrossFire with a 40 € ATi 3450HD passive cooled. Without load the onboard GFX shuts down, under full load you get a performance boost of 2x with the IGP. Low power consumption of Northbridge, great 3D performance if needed. And you profit from the dedicarted Video-RAM of the card (speed and RAM for OS spared) [/QUOTE]

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