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Lower Power Utilization for High End Video Card?
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 03:51:09 -0800, "W"
wrote: I have an older XP computer in a living room on which I installed an nVidia GEForce 8800 Ultra. The card performs well, but to my disbelief with the monitor turned off and the computer doing nothing but displaying an inactive Windows desktop, the nVidia card is consuming about 160 watts of energy continuously. Since the system is only used to run a few virtual machines about 99% of the time, that is a lot of wasted energy. I want a card that can stop burning watts when it is in a low use mode. Does anyone make a top tier video card that can power itself to a minimum power utilization mode when the card is not being used heavily? I read somewhere that some newer version of AMD Eyefinity could get power utilization in an unused mode down under 20 watts. What are details on that? I believe my eVGA GTX680 SuperClocked is a low power card. I am not sure how to check how many watts it uses. |
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Lower Power Utilization for High End Video Card?
"PW" wrote in message
... On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 03:51:09 -0800, "W" wrote: I have an older XP computer in a living room on which I installed an nVidia GEForce 8800 Ultra. The card performs well, but to my disbelief with the monitor turned off and the computer doing nothing but displaying an inactive Windows desktop, the nVidia card is consuming about 160 watts of energy continuously. Since the system is only used to run a few virtual machines about 99% of the time, that is a lot of wasted energy. I want a card that can stop burning watts when it is in a low use mode. Does anyone make a top tier video card that can power itself to a minimum power utilization mode when the card is not being used heavily? I read somewhere that some newer version of AMD Eyefinity could get power utilization in an unused mode down under 20 watts. What are details on that? I believe my eVGA GTX680 SuperClocked is a low power card. I am not sure how to check how many watts it uses. Your specific card model's idle power draw is 15.5 Watts. |
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