- Dec 21, 2000
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Recently, I've been playing with my roommate's Killawatt meter and have been troubleshooting some voltage issues that were eventually causing some heat problems for me. With all that figured out, I did some tinkering while I was finishing up the game Crysis for the first time.
I disabled Catalyst A.I. in CCC because I heard it resolved a flashbang issue with CS:Source. It's not a big problem, but I just wanted to see if that fixed it. It did, but I then noticed how low the Killawatt was reading, which was maybe 20W above my current idle consumption.
I did a little testing with Crysis since that obviously stresses my videocards more. Sure enough, with Catalyst A.I. turned on, my power consumption went up roughly 60 watts! Disabling it brought me back down to around 400W, which I thought was pretty interesting. I figured that disabling some 'optimization' features of the cards would have the reverse effect since I would assume it'd have to work the videocards harder.
I should mention that my FPS in Crysis were quite literally cut in half with Catalyst A.I. disabled.
And now you know.
I disabled Catalyst A.I. in CCC because I heard it resolved a flashbang issue with CS:Source. It's not a big problem, but I just wanted to see if that fixed it. It did, but I then noticed how low the Killawatt was reading, which was maybe 20W above my current idle consumption.
I did a little testing with Crysis since that obviously stresses my videocards more. Sure enough, with Catalyst A.I. turned on, my power consumption went up roughly 60 watts! Disabling it brought me back down to around 400W, which I thought was pretty interesting. I figured that disabling some 'optimization' features of the cards would have the reverse effect since I would assume it'd have to work the videocards harder.
I should mention that my FPS in Crysis were quite literally cut in half with Catalyst A.I. disabled.
And now you know.
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