480gtx power consumption

[Boozebeard]

I ended up getting the 480, was a bit worried my power supply would be cutting it a bit close so I bought a power monitor with it. You may be interested to know that my rig in my sig (but with a 480) only consumes about 350 watt while running heaven benchmark and 410 while running heaven and burn test

Pretty happy with that was expecting to be cutting it a lot closer!

 

[buttkinz]

Overclock it and up the volts that's where is gets hot and bothered

 

[RavenXXX2]

Yeah 480 power usage scaremongering should be put to bed, as proved here.