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I don't need corrected.
The fact you go on NVidia's rather embarrassing TDP value and not the actual power draw shown on tech sites, says a lot really.
There you go, pat yourselves on the back and move along. It is pathetic how in every performance thread the same old comments come out.
hmm if those power consumption tables are to be believed i could safely run 2x 5870 on my current HX620...might try it
Was it particularly loud when fully loaded? I can never hear mine with my current setup.
I like how they used the 6 display port versions for ATI cards, to help push up the price compared to normal Nvidia ones. And they rounded up prices for ATI by quite a bit, and nvidia cares where correctly priced lol.
Good job they wheren't pushing for any form of relitive pice comparison.
Im looking foward to the single 5770 vs 475 3 way SLI review when it's released.
Thats fair enough mate. But my whole point of view is that power usages should never be the main deciding factor when buying a top end card.
Oh I agree entirely, for a lot of people (especially those looking to spend £300+ on a graphics card) power consumption is not really an issue, as over the long term the cost increase from the additional power usage is pretty small.
Personally it wasn't power usage that put me off the 470/480, it was the additional heat that this causes since I would be adding it to my water loop and it would increase the temperature of the loop pretty significantly (which could be a problem as my CPU is running in the same loop). As it is I've decided to skip this gen entirely and wait it out.