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		rys on March 21, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AMD Publishes Open-Source HD 7000, Trinity Code I've never really understood why you'd want to burn around 100W if you don't have much need for 3D performance and all you want is good desktop performance. Surely there are cheap alternatives at less than half the total board power?

c0un7d0wn on March 21, 2012 [–]

You can put the card in low power mode with

  echo low | sudo tee -a /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile

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