SPCR

Have a look at the two pictures: http://www.hardwareluxx.de/cms/artikel. ... 90&seite=5

Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.73 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB
ASUS P5ND2-SLI Deluxe
2 x 512 MB TwinMos PC3200 CL2,5
Maxtor 7B250S0
NEC DVD RW ND-3520A
Hiper 550W-Netzteil

whole system idle: 255W
whole system load: 444W

Is this a new record or are you aware of something even more power-hungry?

I'm sure an 8-CPU Itanium system would draw more.

But as far as desktops, that probably takes the cake. 255W/444W was stock right, and not overclocked?

frostedflakes wrote: But as far as desktops, that probably takes the cake. 255W/444W was stock right, and not overclocked?

Yes, stock.

that's just some retarded designing right there.

sli + intel extremely hot = get out

~El~Jefe~ wrote:that's just some retarded designing right there.

sli + intel extremely hot = get out

One of the rare occasions where you can understand Overclocker's obsessions with getting 600w and 800w PSUs

Man, soon we be powering these puppies with nuclear fuel pellets.

Tiamat wrote:Man, soon we be powering these puppies with nuclear fuel pellets.

Yeah, it could take the place of the CMOS battery.

Keep in mind those draws are from the wall. That PS may only be 60 or 70% effecient, which would mean about 300W pulled from the power supply itself at full load.

I hear valves are making a comeback.

I argue that a microprocessor should take less power than a mainframe. Esp a 1964 one.

I'd just like to point out that GF 6800 Ultra consumes more power than the new 110nm 7800 part. A system with 2 6800U's in SLI would be the most power hungry setup on desktop today.

You know what I did? I bought a puny Asus 9250 graphics card, because I was sure it would use far less power than my Abit 9600XT (with the blue LED fan and super heatsink), and guess what?

It uses more friggin power. I don't even know how that could be possible, because the A9250 heatsink seems just warm. I've done most of my power measurements with the XT fan disconnected, but I don't think that counts for much.

WTF? That is ridiculous.

Brute force engineering is really turning me off.

-Ed

don't worry, Yonah is here in a Q1/H1 2006

my friend has a light processor on his desk for 2 years now.

what's with all these retarded small advances in chip design? its all a show. they keep it to the same design upon agreement, and fight to figure out how to make a new small advance on an archaic chip. If we actually had the real 1 watt chips that didnt use electricity but light instead, and all the other types of technology, we would never need to buy a new cpu for many years, but they want to rip you off and me off, so the pepsi coke battle for years and give us 2 frames of speed each 100 dollars of chip increase. I bet we could have 1 million frames if the 2 companies werent thieves. Oh, im sure people will comment, "if one company had it, they'd show it" of course that statement means they dont want to make a continual flow of billions of dollars, and just benefit society for a moment and retire a mere billionaire instead of a trillionaire.
not gona do it

It's pretty stunning to see the huge AMD-Intel gap when it comes to power draw,heat output-and even performance,Intel has come to rely entirely upon marketing as there are few aspects where the product competes well