GTS450 Must go! HD7750 or 7770 to dave power
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Hi Guys
I got a pc whic is my mediaplayer on a full HD tv,is also my home storage with 2*2T mirrored drives and has a ssd as boot.
Because i convert movies and work whit large raw files i equipped it with 8gb ram and a nice Q8400..
Now,thing is,since i installed the GTS450, OC version from Gigabyte,it seems to me that i am wasting a lot of power if the pc is used for download,to share data from the HDDs,browsing internet....not graphical stuff basically.
I did downclock the Video with MSI afterburner and now total pc consumption is about 85-105watts.
Would it make sense to replace the video with a more efficient HD7750/7770?
The price of the 2 is basically the same here (holland) and looks like one takes 55w the other 80.the GTS uses 106w on paper...
Suggestions?Ideas? or you think is better to keep the GTS450 downcloacked?
Thanks
Gabriele
I got a pc whic is my mediaplayer on a full HD tv,is also my home storage with 2*2T mirrored drives and has a ssd as boot.
Because i convert movies and work whit large raw files i equipped it with 8gb ram and a nice Q8400..
Now,thing is,since i installed the GTS450, OC version from Gigabyte,it seems to me that i am wasting a lot of power if the pc is used for download,to share data from the HDDs,browsing internet....not graphical stuff basically.
I did downclock the Video with MSI afterburner and now total pc consumption is about 85-105watts.
Would it make sense to replace the video with a more efficient HD7750/7770?
The price of the 2 is basically the same here (holland) and looks like one takes 55w the other 80.the GTS uses 106w on paper...
Suggestions?Ideas? or you think is better to keep the GTS450 downcloacked?
Thanks
Gabriele
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The power that you mentioned (55w, 80w and 106w) is used only when the cards are under load, that means only when graphically intense stuff is going on. When nothing graphically is going on, they consume much less energy.
I don't think exchanging graphics card to HD 7750 makes any sense just for the power consumption. You will pay more for the card than you will ever save from saving electricity. -
Sunius said:The power that you mentioned (55w, 80w and 106w) is used only when the cards are under load, that means only when graphically intense stuff is going on. When nothing graphically is going on, they consume much less energy.
http://tpucdn.com/reviews/ASUS/HD_7750/images/power_idle.gif
I don't think exchanging graphics card to HD 7750 makes any sense just for the power consumption. You will pay more for the card than you will ever save from saving electricity.
Load power draw usage would be a little more helpful -
panwala95 said:why dont you try dercreasing cpu voltages and downclocking your ram a bit?
Well,,i installed asus AI suite,whic should work that way...but somehow everytime i restart the pc i find it set to "rocket" or other modes rather than "maximum power save" as i did let it.
Then MSI afterburner to power done the video card...
It would be great to be able to downclock cpu and gpu when browsing or having the pc on just to share the hardrives in the nretwork,and to "awake" it when processing video Bluray or converting movies...somehow i dont seem to be able to do this with this rig,but i used to do this when i had a nvidia mobo,all via system tools...
There is the other possibility,to put the 4Tera in a nas storage...and let them on...and use this pc just as a player/downloader/movie edit...a storageless workstation
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