Jawed
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Extremely Power Hungry D3D10 GPUs
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Best start saving up for that secondary power line then...
I gave up after a while, but I did once try to work out just how much £/$/€ it'll cost to run a top-of-the-line desktop PC for several hours per day. I reckon with 500-1000w PSU's it'll probably be fairly pricey unless you have some sort of fixed-rate supply deal
Jack
I gave up after a while, but I did once try to work out just how much £/$/€ it'll cost to run a top-of-the-line desktop PC for several hours per day. I reckon with 500-1000w PSU's it'll probably be fairly pricey unless you have some sort of fixed-rate supply deal
Jack
Not that 65nm fabrication of large dies precludes excessive power requirements, but is this news not a tacit acknowledgement that the first high-end D3D10 gpus will be fabbed at 90nm (perhaps with less transistors than initially planned for a 65nm design) and will either have to be scarce, very low yield, ultra-enthusiast parts with massive dies probing new SKU MSRP heights or be less ambitious, scaled-back, but still quite large parts?
Anand's mentioning of R580+/R590 (after a month or two of virtually no news around here atleast re: R580+/R590), which I believe others have mentioned was always an optional refresh according to roadmaps, and the late 2006/early 2007 release of DCD10 parts, would, on the face of it, suggest that recent murmurings of an R600 release/demo/whatever in September were premature. Hopefully some new snippets will emerge by the end of Computex.
Anand's mentioning of R580+/R590 (after a month or two of virtually no news around here atleast re: R580+/R590), which I believe others have mentioned was always an optional refresh according to roadmaps, and the late 2006/early 2007 release of DCD10 parts, would, on the face of it, suggest that recent murmurings of an R600 release/demo/whatever in September were premature. Hopefully some new snippets will emerge by the end of Computex.
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Somewhere, the CEOs of Enermax, Tagan, Akasa and so on, say: "Yes!".
By the way, and that's a bit OT, but I wouldn't expect 1GHz GPUs right away, there's still conflicting information about what to expect on a clockspeed side for the first D3D10 GPUs.
Also, 130 to 300 Watts is quite a wide range, more precisions are required in order to get a more concrete idea.
By the way, and that's a bit OT, but I wouldn't expect 1GHz GPUs right away, there's still conflicting information about what to expect on a clockspeed side for the first D3D10 GPUs.
Also, 130 to 300 Watts is quite a wide range, more precisions are required in order to get a more concrete idea.
JHoxley said:I gave up after a while, but I did once try to work out just how much £/$/€ it'll cost to run a top-of-the-line desktop PC for several hours per day. I reckon with 500-1000w PSU's it'll probably be fairly pricey unless you have some sort of fixed-rate supply deal
Heh, I've got a Kill-a-Watt meter hooked up to my PC for a couple weeks now. When I first plugged it in it was clocking over 300W running 3dmark06. I haven't dared look at it since
Richteralan
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What I believe it's just the marketing BS from OCZ for their 5.25 driver bay 300W PSU.
serenity said:
Basically you just said the lowest end card will be using more power then a X1900XTX which i dont see happening because that would also mean the lowest end card would also have close to the performance of the highest end cards as well. Just over 300Watts is a common total for how much power a modern high end gaming PC draws, let alone just the card. I am quite sure those are figures for worse case scenerio (multiple card systems). Dont forget ATI and Nvidia will be trying to sell or operate GP GPU physics cards soon as well, which may also be included in that request.
400 Watts (total system) is what a 2x 7900GTX/X1900XT draws.
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