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disolitude on 09 November 2010
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dahuman said:
disolitude said:

lol...It was pretty cool to see COD get chewed up by this card.

I will never understand why people even bring up power drain when discussing cards like this. Like this card is 500 bucks... anyone that is buying these cards obviously is using a high end gaming machine.

What are the odds those people care about their electricity bills or the need to buy a better power supply? They don't...they go for broke.

On topic...I am perfectly happy with my GTX470 SLI and it will most likely never have a chance to use this card, but it seems like the best single GPU you can buy by a long shot. Only thing that Nvidia needs to implement is the ability to connect 3 monitors on a single GPU. You still need SLI to do this, and this 1 card could erasily power 3 monitors for most games.


I'm running dual 5870 eye6 now and I can tell you that I care about power drain, very much.


Why?

You spent 600 plus bucks on your cards.Its like buying a bugatti Veyron and then watching the gas consumption...makes no sense to me.

Your cards still use a lot less electricity than a hairdryer and probably end up costing you 20 dollars more per month versus a lesser card if you run your PC 24/7.