MSI 7300 Card - Nvidia Settings/Autoconfigure/Slimline Cooling

[OriginalNanner]

I bought the MSI nVidia 7300 low profile card with 256 onboard with 512 supported turbocache. Very superior to the X300SE card I had before.

Does anyone know for the settings, for using auto configure for game software, do I just use the 'application controlled' and the game software automatically sets the AA and other settings to what it can handle, or do I select several settings I want, say 4X for AA and AN, and then auto configure for the other settings. When the application controlled is checked, I cannot see what the game autoconfigure determines the settings. I autoconfigured one game, and the resolution was set to 800, then I set it manually to 1024, and the game runs just as well. Seems the autoconfigure is not too good for getting the best out of the card? I cant find a good manual for determining how all of this works.

Also, it comes with software from MSI for 'dynamic overclocking', allowing addtional settings for upping the card performance. It seems I can set it to setting 3 out of a high setting of 6 before artifacts occur. Probably heat. Does anyone know an easy, hopefully cheap, way to provide better ventilation/cooling for a slimline.

Help greatly appreciated

 

[Nelviticus]

I don't have that card but I do have a much older MSI nVidia card (a 5600). 'Application controlled' in the settings means just that - it's up to the game/application whether it turns on/off antialiasing (for instance). Most games have settings menus that allow you to turn on/off various graphical features so that they will look good on newer hardware while still running OK on older hardware.

As I understand it it's much better to allow the game itself to turn on antialising (or whatever) rather than letting the driver do it because the game can do its own optimising. If you turn on 4xAA in the driver then it will antialias the whole display which might be slower, although it will allow you to have AA in games that don't have it built in.

When you say 'autoconfigure', do you mean a game's own auto-configure option or is it a feature of the driver? I don't have it in my MSI driver. I have heard that the autoconfig of some games doesn't work that well though so I generally just play with settings manually until I find a configuration that I like.

For better cooling I'd have a look at somewhere like QuietPC.

Regards

Nelviticus