Aren’t modern GPUs more in the 200-500W range? They’ve gotten very power hungry recently.
remember when they just plugged into the motherboard and didn’t need multiple external power connections?
The Nvidia 7800GT Dual is an oddball card from that era. Nvidia made a dual chip card back in 2004-2005 and they deemed it so power hungry that it had supplementary power routed to the rear, and an external power supply brick was packaged alongside it. It was a monster of a card, measuring nearly 10 inches long, and could make a 350W PSU beg for mercy. How the times have changed
Can’t speak for the most modern ones which I know are worse, but I was pretty surprised when I recently got a smart plug with power monitoring recently to find that my system with a 3080 (though, undervolted slightly), 16-core cpu, way too many peripherals, eight various drives, several small screens and dual monitors, only pulls 600-650W under full load.
I got the plugs to help me choose an appropriate UPS, and I don’t need one as powerful as I’d thought I would.
I need to get one of those. I have 5 spinning disks + 1 SSD, though not much else high powered - it’s a file server, CPU is at least 8 years old, and GPU (if you can even call it that) is passively cooled… I just replaced my 500W power supply because its fan had died (explains why occasionally I’d come home and find it powered off) and nothing under 650W had enough SATA power connectors, so that’s what I ended up with. Curious how overkill it is…
That’s about how long it’s been since I’ve gotten a new card, so I’m going to say yes.
Uhh yeah, totally! Hides AI-generated image of a scantily-clad anime girl with twelve fingers and three tits.
twelve fingers and three tits.
I can’t tell if that was generated with a weak and lazy prompt or an incredibly detailed prompt asking for that exact configuration.
