video card power requirments

Psi* · 12-01-2009, 12:39 PM

As I was working on figuring out PSU requirements & thinking about a little debate with Rob

, it became challenging to find video card power requirements..

Anyway, a few links
video card power requirements or atomic
Toms h/w it is interesting how he gets detailed power requirement for the mother board. How? Where? Curious minds want to know!!!

msi HQ
xbit labs

... and now I have a headache.

All I was interested in was some manufacturers' numbers

Rob Williams · 12-01-2009, 01:14 PM

Wow, you've stumbled on some great reading here. I'm going to have to take a look at that Tom's article later, and as for that first graph... I get a major headache just look at it. I hate dealing with creation of graphs, but that one is a true monster... ugh.

12-01-2009, 12:39 PM	#1
Psi* Tech Monkey Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Westport, CT Posts: 766	video card power requirments As I was working on figuring out PSU requirements & thinking about a little debate with Rob, it became challenging to find video card power requirements.. Anyway, a few links video card power requirements or atomic Toms h/w it is interesting how he gets detailed power requirement for the mother board. How? Where? Curious minds want to know!!! msi HQ xbit labs ... and now I have a headache. All I was interested in was some manufacturers' numbers __________________ Win 7 64 bit, ASUS P6X58D Premium i7-990 @ 4.5 GHz 24 GB CORSAIR DOMINATOR NVIDIA Tesla M2090 + NVS 290, Seasonic X750 Swiftech Apogee XT block, Indigo Extreme TIM Swiftech MCR220-QP Radiator, Eheim 1040 pump, 1/2" ID Tubing

12-01-2009, 01:14 PM	#2
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,231	Wow, you've stumbled on some great reading here. I'm going to have to take a look at that Tom's article later, and as for that first graph... I get a major headache just look at it. I hate dealing with creation of graphs, but that one is a true monster... ugh. __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

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