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FoxEye said:
No, you don't want to use more power. You want more work done. You want the most work done for the least power. Power costs you money; work done increases your FPS. More work done is good, more power is bad.

If you could have a smooth 4k experience with a power-sipping card, or a smooth 4k experience that added £5,000 to your electricity bill each year, you would choose the former.
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No, I want the most performance possible that can fit inside a case. The only metric that's important in terms of performance as a ratio is price. Power efficiency is pretty much irrelevant past can I cool and power the card.
 
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I think I get what jigger is trying to say but he's doing it really badly.

So badly I don't know what he is trying to say for sure, something along the lines that a more efficient architecture is better cause it'll be more powerful at a given power envelope (let's say 300W as that is around the max an off the shelf card draws)

But maybe he is not, maybe i am talking rubbish. My brain is mush from studying.
 
Disco_P said:
I think I get what jigger is trying to say but he's doing it really badly.

So badly I don't know what he is trying to say for sure, something along the lines that a more efficient architecture is better cause it'll be more powerful at a given power envelope (let's say 300W as that is around the max an off the shelf card draws)

But maybe he is not, maybe i am talking rubbish. My brain is mush from studying.
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It's pretty simple. Performance comes at the cost of power. More power = more performance.
 
"it lead people to think for a long time the earth was totally flat and not curved."

Please don't tell me that supposed educated people believe this tripe of a myth ! :eek:
 
FoxEye said:
Unless you are comparing two different architectures with different efficiency ratings. Which is what we were doing before you became obsessed with unlimited power...
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Just pointing out the GTX970 gets slaughtered and questioning why anyone would care about the power use of a graphics card past can I cool, power and afford to buy it.

Seems esspecailly strange on this forum that anyone would put power use before performance and price.

Obsessed needs a special mention. I'm sensing a little Nvidia focus group in you.
 
jigger said:
Well unless we are talking kw cards, you would need a very well insulated house. Probably air tight too.

A family of four average size people would output more heat to the house than most cards.
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Considering the power usage of Vega you would be wrong.

Most families tend to have 2 adults plus kids, the total energy (heat) output of them would be less than a Vega card but more than a Pascal Titan Xp lol.
 
Kaapstad said:
Considering the power usage of Vega you would be wrong.

Most families tend to have 2 adults plus kids, the total energy (heat) output of them would be less than a Vega card but more than a Pascal Titan Xp lol.
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About 109 watts per person. You missed the point.

My heating system is 35,000 watts. I'd need 119 Vega 64 cards or 140 titans to replace my boiler.
 
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jigger said:
About 109 watts per person. You missed the point.

My heating system is 35,000 watts. I'd need 119 Vega 64 cards or 140 titans to replace my boiler.
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you dont use it at full power all the time though XD + this is just heating your house not replacing you whole hot water system as well. :P
 
Jumper118 said:
you dont use it at full power all the time though XD + this is just heating your house not replacing you whole hot water system as well. :p
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You too missed the point. 350watt of heat isn't enough to heat the smallest of rooms. If it was 3 people would provide enough heat...
 
Jumper118 said:
a mining rig can have 6-9 cards............... not 350w :p
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9 cards would supply a decent amount of heat.

Would probably keep the chill off a hall, stairs and landing but you must have one hell of an electricity biill running 9 cards 24 hours a day. £1500 a quarter?
 
jigger said:
9 cards would supply a decent amount of heat.

Would probably keep the chill off a hall, stairs and landing but you must have one hell of an electricity biill running 9 cards 24 hours a day. £1500 a quarter?
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yes, but mining with them you can make way more to offset that :p anyway i think you are taking this way too seriously. its almost like i am on an merican forum where humor is banned and everyone takes everything literally
 
Jumper118 said:
yes, but mining with them you can make way more to offset that :p anyway i think you are taking this way too seriously. its almost like i am on an merican forum where humor is banned and everyone takes everything literally
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How much can you make? I might buy 35,000 watts worth of Vega 64 cards and rip out my boiler.
 
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