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[plonq]

My video card has finally stopped complaining about the power levels.  I played around with cable configurations for about 15 minutes last night until I found an arrangement that it liked.  I did a couple of power cycles to make sure that it wouldn't change its mind, but this time it seems to think that it has adequate current to run at full speed.  I cycled the machine again this morning, but once again it was still happy.

Looks like I won't have to return the card after all, but if I ever decide to go with the dual cards in this computer I may have to get a second power supply.  I'm guessing that this card sucks at least 85W  O_o

That's a lot of heat to dissipate - and I had to disable my case fans to get the card working.  That seems kind of self-defeating at some level.  I'll have to keep a close eye on the heat levels.  Things will improve down the road when I switch from IDE to SATA hard drives - which will free up a few power leads.

Comments

[furahi.livejournal.com]

That's one of the reasons why I keep my 'server' behind the generations...
It's on /all/ the time, I don't want it sucking my power that much... of course it does anyway, but less :P

[atara.livejournal.com]

Well - our heat isn't electric, we only have a small air conditioner on in the summer (and only then at night), and electricity is cheaper here in Manitoba than anywhere else I know of (Manitoba exports power to the US and other parts of Canads)... It's actually not that bad. :)

[nrasser.livejournal.com]

heh..you guys have teh dirt-cheap power. We pay around $100/mo for juice and we aren't even running A/C (yet).

[furahi.livejournal.com]

Our electricity didn't used to be that expensive, it's gone up though, I don't know how expensive it is right now... Certainly cheaper than in the US
I think we were exporting power to them too.... or was that just water?