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[–] [email protected] 102 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Aren't modern GPUs more in the 200-500W range? They've gotten very power hungry recently.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (2 children)

remember when they just plugged into the motherboard and didn't need multiple external power connections?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I built a PC out of some spare parts recently, and was marveling at not having to plug a power cable into the graphics card (a 1050 Ti). The sacrifices we make for graphics quality...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The days of powering your computer with a potato are long behind us comrad

[–] Angry_Autist 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Haha one of my earliest PCs didn't even have a CPU fan!

[–] scutiger 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When I upgraded my PC decades ago, it didn't even have a heatsink. Just bare ceramic. Fans weren't really a requirement until the Pentium era, or maybe the late 486 era.

[–] Angry_Autist 2 points 2 months ago

There was some crossover, there were a few Dx4 100s that shipped with small fans and some pentiums were passive cooled even up till the Pentium 2's.

Some people even scoffed at fans for noise pollution, the arguments were kind of fun to watch at the time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I run Linux on an old gaming PC that I use as a file server / jellyfin server / homeassistant / probably a bunch more I'm forgetting, and that one rarely goes above 50W, lol. Haven't tested it under full load, though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hope people are using that power for worthwhile things.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Uhh yeah, totally! Hides AI-generated image of a scantily-clad anime girl with twelve fingers and three tits.

[–] partial_accumen 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] prostagma 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

RX 560 runs at 50w and can run old games at 1080p

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is 7 years old modern though?

[–] Zorque 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's about how long it's been since I've gotten a new card, so I'm going to say yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

an rx580 isn't modern, but still can run cyberpunk 2077 well.