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'Ed Light' wrote, in part:
| The card is miles away in a computer I built for a friend. I'm thinking of
| changing motherboards to a km266 pro from a kt133A. Fortunately it's got
an
| Antec 300w, plenty of amps and a 4-pin connector too.
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Amazing what we once thought to be high power consumption! The next
generation of nVidia, the Geforce 2 moved from .22 microns to .18 microns
and eventually had just a 4 Watt power draw for the GPU.
I've often wondered why display adapter manufacturers didn't just plainly
state the power draw of their cards. It'd make life much simpler.
Phil Weldon
"Ed Light" <nobody@nobody.there> wrote in message
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> "Phil Weldon" <notdiscosed@example.com> wrote
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>> the GeForce256 [chip] draws a whopping 16 Watts. If your GeForce256 has
>> one slot cut into the AGP connection fingers nearer the VGA connector it
>> draws power from the 3.3 volt supply. There should be an on card voltage
>> convertor/regulator to supply the voltages needed by the GPU, memory, and
>> interface chips. Figure less than 10 Amperes from the 3.3 volt rail,
>> nothing from any other rails. Only you know what else your system
>> contains. Depending on the other components go, there may almost nothing
>> else connected to the 3.3 volt rail.
>
> The card is miles away in a computer I built for a friend. I'm thinking of
> changing motherboards to a km266 pro from a kt133A. Fortunately it's got
> an Antec 300w, plenty of amps and a 4-pin connector too.
>
> The Guellemot (sp?) 256 is very sharp. The fan fell off, though - broken
> pin. Put a blue orb on there on a fan mate.
>
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