Temperatures and power consumption
Depending on the game and workload, the overall system drew between 195 and 240 watts from the socket. Compared to current cards not that much, but there is also some performance missing.
With a temperature of about 70°C everything is within reason, but the fan control is a bit unfortunate. Instead of rotating both fans, the Dual-X initially only uses the outer fan and the inner fan is only switched on from 80% fan speed. Fortunately, this never happens, because it does get quite loud when both fans are running.
Conclusion
I think the numbers above speak a pretty clear language. Gaming is still possible to a certain extent on such an old graphics card, but of course with larger compromises. The game fun that comes up, however, is strongly dependent on the ability of the respective gamer to suffer. Do I build my nine year old son a computer who wants to play Minecraft and Farming Simulator with it and doesn’t need a 4K 144Hz experience – sure, you can definitely do that. And also in case of a defect it can pay off to have such an old sweetheart still in the cupboard, so that you can at least still do something with the PC, if the graphics card goes down.
As an alternative for the currently so mercilessly overpriced entry-level graphics cards like a GeForce RTX 3060 or Radeon RX 6600, an old R9 270X with its measly 2GB VRAM is of course out of the question. You’d have to poach in the realms of a GTX 1080 or similar, which would only be available for about 400€ on the second-hand market despite the long expired manufacturer’s warranty. These are and will remain bitter times for gamers, we will probably tell our grandchildren about them ;-).
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