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lewbaseball07   11-08-2007 at 03:26:48 AM

How much would an 8800gt need on one 12v rail? IF the only thing that the power supply was running was the card?

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justinmcg67   11-08-2007 at 03:31:07 AM
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You'll need about 18-22A on the +12V Rails. It consumes slightly more power than an 8600GT does.

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Heyyou27   11-08-2007 at 03:39:22 AM
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justinmcg67 wrote :

You'll need about 18-22A on the +12V Rails. It consumes slightly more power than an 8600GT does.

Err? The 8800GT consumes almost as much power as the 8800GTS.

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lewbaseball07   11-08-2007 at 03:46:45 AM
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it still needs 22 if all your powering is it?!?!

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justinmcg67   11-08-2007 at 03:49:49 AM
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Heyyou27 wrote :

Err? The 8800GT consumes almost as much power as the 8800GTS.



They didn't have the 8800GTS in the power consumption I looked at, so it's hard to say on my end. Here's the article.

http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc [...] =3140&p=13

http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/nvidia%20geforce%208800%20gt_10290771026/15925.png

http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/nvidia%20geforce%208800%20gt_10290771026/15926.png

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The 8800 GT draws less power than anything that competes with it in terms of performance. When G80 hit last year, we made a big deal out of how power related to performance. This card simply blows everything else away in terms of how much little power is needed to attain incredible performance.



The bold is what makes me impressed with this card. It needs little power to get great performance. :)

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amnotanoobie   11-08-2007 at 08:35:32 AM
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justinmcg67 wrote :


The bold is what makes me impressed with this card. It needs little power to get great performance. :)




Tom's already did an article on this. "New Nvidia GeForce 8800GT Surprises" http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/1 [...] e_8800_gt/


http://media.tomshardware.com/2007 [...] benchh.png

20watts power difference isn't a major improvement for me. Though the performance difference is mind-blowing.

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