[rescue] x86 power question

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Tue Nov 14 14:22:49 CST 2006


On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Peter Corlett wrote:

> How can a plain home PC possibly justify 1kW?

A PCI express video card just came across my desk five minutes ago, on
the way to $ork's compatibility testing lab.

Said card has SIX HUNDRED AND FORTY MEGABYTES of DDR3 video RAM.

I suspect the power budget for that device is astronomical.

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Elgin, TX         (   childhood.  Others grow up to be CEOs and
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