NV40 powersupply picture leaked :)

[g__day]

http://www.3dgpu.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=9526

 

[Natoma]

Nvidia has disappointed me. I expected a flux capacitor.

 

[epicstruggle]

Interesting question, whether upgrading your powersupply is overboard if you want to upgrade your vid card.

later,
epic

 

[London Geezer]

Think i can plug it into my street's power supply? The whole neighborhood will be blacked out, but at least i'll be able to play Doom3 decently... And it's only for like 2 hours a day! I'm sure they can put up with it!

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

Interesting question, whether upgrading your powersupply is overboard if you want to upgrade your vid card.

later,
epic

If you are talking about a quality hefty PSU, you could be adding about 15-20 percent to the price of the video card just to have the juice to run the graphics card. That's significant.

 

[evil]

nuclear powered videocards are still a ways off aren't they? :/

 

[epicstruggle]

Interesting question, whether upgrading your powersupply is overboard if you want to upgrade your vid card.

later,
epic

If you are talking about a quality hefty PSU, you could be adding about 15-20 percent to the price of the video card just to have the juice to run the graphics card. That's significant.

But with all the things we currently power of a 300-350w PSU, at some point we will need to upgrade the thing. Now an upgrade from a 400+ to a 500w PSU would be ridiculous.

later,
epic

 

[nutball]

Yeah, it's going to be fun times for those wanting to run boxes with Prescott CPUs (~100+W) and an NV40/R420 (~100+W). That's the thick end of a 300W PSU used up with those two components

 

[epicstruggle]

Yeah, it's going to be fun times for those wanting to run boxes with Prescott CPUs (~100+W) and an NV40/R420 (~100+W). That's the thick end of a 300W PSU used up with those two components

See this is the point im trying to shed some light on. There is a point where NV is not to blame for requiring you to upgrade your PSU. Even ATI will at some point say you need more power.

later,
epic

 

[Crusher]

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure those are hydrolic lines... I'm not really sure how they plan to power an electronic device with those.