Tom's Hardware: Topic PowerColor 4870 Power Consumption
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Hi guys, i bought a PowerColor 4870 1 GB yesterday. I wanted to know how can i reduce power consumption of my graphic card?
Most of the times i'm not using high graphic games and my system is in idle status but as i know the graphic card uses about 140 watt while it's idle 
Is there any program for reducing power consumption of graphic cards?
Also i wanted to ask if i reduce graphic card's memory clock & GPU clock, does it damage the graphic card? Could it be a way for reducing power consumption?
Thank you for answering my questions
o ok im not sure about asus i just got myself an gigabyte and it came with a programe that saved watts from the cpu called easy saver it takes it from 3.2ghz to 800mhz
did you check the cd?
it also dropped my cpu heat 10 decress 
Message edited by sirkillalot on 09-15-2009 at 03:55:59 PM
Yes, ASUS has the same thing but...
It doesn't work for my graphic card 
Check this out:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/263358-30-engine
Any one?
What about changing the frequencies?
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