Interesting Statistics of Power Usage Over GPU Years

[smogsy]

So PC
i7 3770k @ 4.4
MSI Mpower Z77
16GB 1600mhz ram
4 SSD
1 HDD
HX850

All using Wall meter

All Running Idle
570GTX - Using 225-250w of power
7970 - Using 200-250w
7990 - Using 400-450w (ULPS was off so running both cards)
2x 980 -using 100w-130w

Load (Firestrike)
570GTX - Using 350-425w of power
7970 - Using 300-380w
7990 - Using 450-600w (ULPS was off so running both cards)
2x 980 -using 380-450w

i put this together over the years of having gpu's i like power efficiency & very interested in how cooling works.

only went back to a 570 as my 7990 died my system is around 2years old now

 

[smogsy]

its not the fact of power saving, its the fact of moving tech getting better

& it will save money, if your buying new rig you "could" buy a smaller PSU. but we all love epeen here so no one will

 

[smogsy]

From what I have seen the 970 sits at 74c in sli this is not much different to my xfire 290s
Mine range from 70c to 77c depending on the game I playing. And msi cooling isn't the best of the 290's I wounder what Tri-X is?
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-970-maxwell,3941-15.html

thats because the fan speed is very low... at 75c my fan speed was at 35% i boosted it to 45% running at 60c in bf4

mine at 980 reference