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    power consumption on the GX740

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by laffles, Aug 22, 2011.

  1. laffles

    laffles Notebook Geek

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    This is kind of two questions, I'd really appreciate some help

    I'm going to come across as very ignorant now so please excuse me. I've had my GX740 for just over a year now, but I've recently ordered a new gaming pc, (specs below)

    I am on an electricity meter in my current flat (it's quite expensive) whilst designing doing a bit of gaming, and spending alot of time on the pc, It cost's me about £4 a week, in electricity...

    I realise that the pc I've posted below will consume much more, but how much exactly? Double? tripple?.. not that much more?.. the graphics card alone Here on my new computer idles @ 150w how much does the gx740's card idle at?

    and given the PSU of the rig below, and parts in general, could you maybe tell me if the power consumption compared to the gx740 will be double or tripple etc. so I would be able to work out just how much money I'm going to have to spend on electricity :(

    I'm sure I could have asked those questions in a more simple way but I'm very tired and a little bit drunk, thank you very much in advance.

    CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K OC@ 4.7Ghz
    CPU Cooler: Corsair H60 Water Cooler
    Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68A-D3
    Memory: 8.0GB Corsair DDR3 1600mhz XMS3 (4x 2GB)
    HD: Crucial 64GB SSD S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s
    Second hard drive: NEW! 1TB S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s
    Optical Drive: 22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA
    Graphics card: NEW! NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 1,536MB
    Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio
    Monitors: LG 22' E2240S-PN LED
    Case: NZXT Hush 2 Silent White
    PSU: 700W Xigmatek
     
    laffles, Aug 22, 2011
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  2. Bearclaw

    Bearclaw Steaming

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    you're looking at triple at least.
     
    Bearclaw, Aug 22, 2011
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  3. laffles

    laffles Notebook Geek

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  4. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    190W idle, 390W in game, 450W stressed +22W for monitor.

    More or less depending on how much of the power savings you have switched on/off.

    So idle is more than your notebook uses at OMGBBQ levels.

    During games you are looking at over 3 times the power usage.

    Power meters suck , get away from that sort of thing ASAP IMO.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Aug 22, 2011
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  5. flingin

    flingin M17x R2 Mafia

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    i would say that there is no point of investing in desktop pc while you have gx740, simply becouse it will run almost all new games with full details, to have 30fps is enough, so why to have 150fps and pay more :)
    52 weeks times at least £12 a week = £624 = in 2 years you can save on electricity and upgrade/buy new better laptop :), or spend it on cookies :)
    But that is only my opinion m8
     
    flingin, Aug 23, 2011
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