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Slimebeast on 14 February 2012
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crissindahouse said:
Karanlos said:

The x1900 had a load power cunsumption of 110-120 watt. The 7950 has a load power consumption of ~230. The size of the cards are also way larger. 1.5 years is not gonna fix that.

As Play4Fun said cooling systems are expensive. A proper air cooling system uses copper and copper price has not become cheaper. Actually it's the opposite.

The numbers don't add up.


it doesn't need 230w. all i read was 200w wihout overclocking. maybe what i read was shit ok that's possible.

and yes cooling systems are expensive but you know they still don't need exactly the same system they used in the 360. a little bit better system wouldn't cost more nowadays. it's not like i wish to see it having 3x better cooling and with a better architecture a 7950 like card would mabye need 180w

if the 360 wouldn't have be such a fail on release it could have handled a gpu with more power consumption as well. a 150w card wouldn't have been a problem.

I believe this too, that the architecture will be improved til 2013 and a Nextbox GPU similar to the Radeon 7950 will need 180W or even less.

I hope MS are bold and allows a 180W GPU even if it means that the launch Nextboxes are a bit loud and hot, until they can make a second iteration based on 22nm in 2014.