Spire
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 Posted: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:30:10 Post Subject: |
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Welcome to BigBruin.com Geist, thanks a bunch for your compliments.
I can understand the 6800GT pulling lots more power than an older card. However, I am still confused by the "faster is more power" issue people keep bringing up when talking about CPU's"
When you up the voltage to acheive a faster overclock, how does that affect the actual power that a CPU draws?
The amount of heat they give off goes up, but that is not going to tax a much smaller PSU.
The Kitchen sink system taxed the 5v and the 12v rails. The 3.3v volt rail is extremely hard to tax. What do you do, the processor and memory are on these rails. I really have a hard time believing that the (regulated on board) 3.3volt rail will be greatly affected by overclocking or running a faster speed processor.
Besides, we test with the equipment we have on hand.
My choices were either the P4 or my 35 watt mobile XP. I'm sure you agree that the P4 draws more power!!! |
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