3 monitors + Eyeinfinity = Power Hungry Monster

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I was thinking how great the power savings is on 5800 series cards(in terms of their performnace), and people praise them as such, but seeing that if you run eyeinfinity, these monitors produce like 200 watts each, that's 600 watts just for three monitors running eyeinfinity. Combine that with the wattage from your system and you are looking at let's say, a whopping 1200 watts. Bang...:cool:
 
Thats a price you pay for having the best. If I had money for the monitors, pc that can run them, and the electric bill I would easy do that!
 
Totally.

And man been having a blast with Dirt 2 :), makes me wish I had eyefinity
 
Eyefinity was lauded for its *idle* power consumption, which is very good. Comparing one HD5870 to one 4870x2 gives a pretty good performance to power ratio improvement as well.

A 24" LCD will range from 30-70 watts depending on how it's made and used. This translates to $30-$70 per year in power bills at typical rates.
 
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I was thinking how great the power savings is on 5800 series cards(in terms of their performnace), and people praise them as such, but seeing that if you run eyeinfinity, these monitors produce like 200 watts each, that's 600 watts just for three monitors running eyeinfinity. Combine that with the wattage from your system and you are looking at let's say, a whopping 1200 watts. Bang...:cool:
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Where the hell are you getting 200 watts per monitor? LCD monitors are pretty power efficient. Most 24" or smaller monitors use less than 50 watts each. Most 30" LCD's I've seen use less than 150 watts each. If you don't believe me, go to newegg and start looking at the power specs of each monitor.

Now if your using LCD TV's your power usage might be that high. My year old 32" LCD TV sucks down 360 watts.
 
PS3 said:
I was thinking how great the power savings is on 5800 series cards(in terms of their performnace), and people praise them as such, but seeing that if you run eyeinfinity, these monitors produce like 200 watts each, that's 600 watts just for three monitors running eyeinfinity. Combine that with the wattage from your system and you are looking at let's say, a whopping 1200 watts. Bang...:cool:
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200 watts? On which planet? My 2343BWX Samsungs run 44 watts each. The higher end Dell U2410 IPS monitors run about 50-70 watts depending on brightness settings.

FYI, at maximum brightness, 52" LCD TV's run about 200watts. Most will do about 150watts post-calibration.
 
samsung 245BW = 100w, samsung 931BF = 60w.. samsung 53" 120hz LCD 325w with display brightness set to performance.. if its set to power saver it will go down to 225w..

now if you ment 200w total for all the monitors then sure its a possibility.. but you do realize you can just disable eyefinity when you dont plan to play games and turn one of the monitors off.. that will save you 60-100w of power while still having 2 monitors to use..
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
samsung 245BW = 100w, samsung 931BF = 60w.. samsung 53" 120hz LCD 325w with display brightness set to performance.. if its set to power saver it will go down to 225w..

now if you ment 200w total for all the monitors then sure its a possibility.. but you do realize you can just disable eyefinity when you dont plan to play games and turn one of the monitors off.. that will save you 60-100w of power while still having 2 monitors to use..
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Current situation is even better, as some of these listed are older, non-production models like the Samsung 245BW. Newer 24" models from Samsung use half the 100watts. Samsung P2570 uses only 45W while the 2443BWT uses 50W.
 
PS3 said:
I was thinking how great the power savings is on 5800 series cards(in terms of their performnace), and people praise them as such, but seeing that if you run eyeinfinity, these monitors produce like 200 watts each, that's 600 watts just for three monitors running eyeinfinity. Combine that with the wattage from your system and you are looking at let's say, a whopping 1200 watts. Bang...:cool:
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BTW what kind of system are you running that uses 600W? 5870 will run 190watts peak, overclocked Core i7 at about 180watts peak, maybe 20watts peak for all your drives. That's 390watts. Add in a few more for your motherboard/RAM and you're barely pushing 400watts for your system. Only way you'd be pushing 600watts for your case system alone would be using a fully overclocked 5970, but you did only mention the 5800 series.

So three 24" LCDs running Eyefinity totals 150watts. 5870/Core i7/harddrives combine for maybe 400watts. That's a grand total of 550 watts. Nowhere near your 1200 watts theory.
 
alxnet2003 said:
BTW what kind of system are you running that uses 600W? 5870 will run 190watts peak, overclocked Core i7 at about 180watts peak, maybe 20watts peak for all your drives. That's 390watts. Add in a few more for your motherboard/RAM and you're barely pushing 400watts for your system. Only way you'd be pushing 600watts for your case system alone would be using a fully overclocked 5970, but you did only mention the 5800 series.

So three 24" LCDs running Eyefinity totals 150watts. 5870/Core i7/harddrives combine for maybe 400watts. That's a grand total of 550 watts. Nowhere near your 1200 watts theory.
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Exactly. My system (see sig) uses 280-300W from the wall at load depending on the game. Throw in a generous 60W per 24" monitor if I were to go Eyefinity and I still wouldn't be touching 500W.
 
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