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Card power consumption

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my x1800xt that i got today is running ok on my enermax liberty 400w psu, but will get a more powerful one soon, its ok for now but my psu's life may shorten cos of it and i'd rather not have it failing on me.
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Your PSU has 30A available according to the specs , there is no need to upgrade. You'd need to buy something like a 900 Watt generic jobby to meet that kind of power output :p
 
Out of curiosity CSA, what is your CPU? I have a feeling it might be the CPU dying which is causing our momentary Mouse/keyboard spazzing, as it only happens in high-intensity situations.

Mine is a A64 3200+ stock.
 
Rivey said:
Out of curiosity CSA, what is your CPU? I have a feeling it might be the CPU dying which is causing our momentary Mouse/keyboard spazzing, as it only happens in high-intensity situations.

Mine is a A64 3200+ stock.
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Its an opteron 146 OC to 2.7GHz on this board , had it at 2.9GHZ on my old neo2 platinum

I too thought it could have been the CPU and one of the first tests i caried out was to run the PC at stock speeds for a day and i still got the problems so i ruled out the CPU & RAM at the time .
 
Hmm... Ok. I'm not going to rule it out (we may have different reasons behing our slowdown afterall :)) but I'll think of something else.

I think my HDD is finally giving up the ghost, so it could be that.
 
Some crazy calcs here, check the bay of e for an electricity meter, my systems uses 71watts on idle and around 110watts loaded (7600gt)

Bigger cards need more, but not that much...
 
well i ordered a Antec Heo 500watt modular yesterday so i pray it fixes my problems :)
 
Some crazy calcs here, check the bay of e for an electricity meter, my systems uses 71watts on idle and around 110watts loaded (7600gt)

Bigger cards need more, but not that much...
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Actually they do m8, 7600 GT is one of the lowest consumption cards on the market, especially for the speed it offers. In this article: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/power-noise_5.html

X1800 XT measured 103 Watts peak load, to just 35.8 Watts for the 7600 GT.
 
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