Again, this test PC consumes heaps of power. The IDLE Wattage is fine, though a little higher than the competition. The monitoring device is reporting a maximum system wattage peak at roughly ~400 Watts, and for a PC with this high-end card, this is excessive but remains within acceptable levels.
INSTALLING GEFORCE GTX 275 FULL
I'd say on average we are using roughly 50 to 100 Watts more than a standard PC due to these settings and added CPU overclock. The ASUS motherboard also allows adding power phases for stability, which we enabled as well. Next to that we have energy saving functions disabled for this motherboard and processor (to ensure consistent benchmark results). It's Core i7 965 / X58 based and overclocked to 3.7 GHz. Note: we recently upgraded our test-platform, which by itself utilizes a lot of energy. From a performance versus wattage point of view, the power consumption is pretty good with the new 55nm products. Bear in mind that you are not looking at the power consumption of the graphics card, but the consumption of the entire PC. We look at the recorded maximum WATT peak and that's the bulls-eye you need to observe as the power peak is extremely important. The methodology is simple: We have a watt monitor constantly monitoring the power draw from the PC. We'll now show you some tests we have done on overall power consumption of the PC. The tiny (2-pin) connector is the S/PDIF lead. The card will work straight out of the box. Install the driver, reboot and you should be good to go. Once the card is installed, we start up Windows. The PSU is an extremely important component in your PC. I do recommend you buy a decent PSU with some reserves, always. Just slide the card into a free PCIe slot, connect the DVI cable to one of the DVI connectors, connect both the 6-pin power connectors to the card.Įspecially with a high-end card like this. Installing the card into your system will be a easy job. At this stage it is time to insert and connect the graphics card to our test system.
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