Best Card for Low Power Consumption?

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AGP, then? Hmm...For a budget of $200, I'd say a 7600GS.

eVGA 7600GS AGP 8X

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~Ibrahim~

Yeah I second the GF7600 series the 7600GT consumes less power than a GF6600GT, so the 7600GS is the better choice since it'll consume less than the GTs , better performance than 6600GT or plain 6800, and less power consumption.

Search further into the Xbit library (well actually more recently), this discussion has come up before, and the GF7600GT consumes LESS powah than the GF6600GT, and considering the clock rates and such the GS is bound to consume even less. Also there are three kinds of GF6800 vanilla, and the DDR and DDR2 kind are rubbish, only the GDDR3 kinda are to be even considered anyways. And your theories about GDDR3 make no sense because clock for clock the it goes DDRII>DDR>GDDR3>GDDR4 for power consumption, so it's unlikely that it's GDDR3 alone causing the power, but the memory and more importantly the core are clocked much faster and therefore likely builds up more resistance and heat thus increasing voltage (and power) required to operate, see that's more plausable than just 'it uses GDDR3'.

See we know the GF6600GT consumes more powah from having posted it before.... several times, however I suggest you simply look at Xbit's most recent review of Power & Noise, and I'm sure you'll see it too.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/v [...] noise.html

Perhaps next time skipped the old numbers and look at the most recent.

unfortunately there aren't many, but I do have one somewhere. I'll have to look in my saved links (hoping it's still an active page).

Lars also did 1 review of powerconsumption here with THG a while back, but it was at the outlet, not the board, and it was of the FX and R3xxgenerations IIRC. I'll see what I can find I rememebr a french site that we used for a long time because no one would do these tests, we even had an open letter to Tom and Lars about it back in the day.

German site has GF4's and the 9700 pro:
http://www.tecchannel.de/technolog [...] dex53.html

BTW, if it's AGP without an aux power connector, then it can't use more than 40 watts peak (AGP slots max).

Tell him to get this PSU Thermaltake TR2 W0070 ATX 430W then use the rest of the money on a video card.

Thanks for the link, Paul. Yeah, I haven't heard great things about that particular Thermaltake. If you need a good, cheap PSU upgrade, this should be on the top of your list:

FSP 400W

Look at that, 36A on the 12V+! Every rail has at least 30A on it, which should be more than enough. Only bad thing is: No PCI-e...

The PCI-e version drops amps on the 3.3 and the 5V, but comes with the connector...

~Ibrahim~