video card power usage

[moosejaw]

I don't know if it's built into Firefox or what, but there seems to be an inline one when I'm posting FWIW. Word also has a grammar checker which...well, it's not a complete solution due to the complexity of teaching a computer proper grammar, but it helps.

Oh yeah, that is built into Firefox. I love it! Too bad I do most of my posting at work on an IE 6 browser.... 8|

[Chranny]

I don't know if it's built into Firefox or what, but there seems to be an inline one when I'm posting FWIW. Word also has a grammar checker which...well, it's not a complete solution due to the complexity of teaching a computer proper grammar, but it helps.

Oh yeah, that is built into Firefox. I love it! Too bad I do most of my posting at work on an IE 6 browser.... 8|

Not even IE7? :O

[moosejaw]

We had IE7 for about 3 days before corporate rolled it back. Being able to browse with tabs was just too much for corporate IT to handle. They can't even integrate our corporate email into our domain logins. We must log into our email accounts seperately (for security purposes) yet they recommend using the same password as your domain login so you don't forget it. /facepalm

[Ualaa]

I'm running Vista 64-Bit, with 8 GB's of ram. My ram is 800mhz DDR2, so the DDR3 stuff you have on an i7 board will be faster.
In my experience, the game almost never uses more then 5.5 to 6gb's of ram, even in cities.

I'm using a 4870 X2, for five clients on one screen 2560x1600. I've symlinked the five wow folders, which has greatly increased my performance in cities. My main window has all of the eye-candy cranked up, but the four other warcrafts have minimal settings and max fps of 8 (I believe) while they're in the background. Even with all effects up a fair ways on all windows, running around on the ground did not challenge my system. However, without reducing the effects on my background warcrafts, roughly 1 in 2 flights, one or two of the smaller windows would freeze. As far as handling the video, the card is overkill for warcraft, as is your 4850.

[moosejaw]

That 4870x2 will only get better with driver updates. This is my first ATI card in nearly 10 years and I am very pleased. Note that my 4870 1gb is half of your x2 :thumbsup: