Video card power ratings

[Paul]

For people building new systems, Xbitlabs have two articles
on the power consumption of high end video cards. Perfect
for figuring out how big a PSU to buy for a new system.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/ati-powercons.html
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/ati-vs-nv-power.html

Paul

 

[elvis]

Interesting reads, and kudos to ATI for sustaining the power reqmnts specs
generation to generation. For my new system with a Newcastle 3400 on a
K8N-E, I thought I may be seeing a NVIDIA graphics card in my system within
the next 12 months (up from a 9800XT), so I selected the Antec True 550 just
to be safe. No problems so far. Of course, with 512MB cards from ATI
rumored to be hitting in October, I may end up with ATI after all.