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Originally Posted by theoak
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If you think about it though ... the ATI chip I am told is over 2 years old. It is holding its "own" pretty good considering its age.
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True, it's a 2 year old chip, but this is a chip where Picard has been optimizing it for a long time. The 2700g is a relative 2 month old, where picard had his x50v ( you do have one picard? ) for only a short time, so there is only some basic acceleration in place. I expect that it will be able to do 200% on the RL_XQ in the not so far feature.
Btw: run a little cpu monitor program, it's nice to see the effect the plugin has on your cpu ( major drop ). I'm playing stargate atlantis eps with only 60% cpu at max. I let xcpuscaller drop back to 520mhz widout problems ( still fine tuning the auto cpu ballance ) and i bet i can run it with even less cpu power needed = longer battery life.
The more program's get optimized for the 2700g, the more you can save on battery live becouse the system get's less stressed. The ATI 2d accelerator is already maxed out, the 2700g isent ;)