James: You missed my point. Those cards you show are all PCI-Express. I was implying by design, AGP cards generally pull less then their PCI-Express cousins.
:) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Boswell Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:21 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] New Intel 775 Pin Motherboards On 18 Sep 2005, at 17:48:520, Chris Reeves wrote: > Socket 775 is dead, in the longterm that is. In that saying, it is > a very > short life socket. Right now, it is your only choice. By early > next year, > it is expected to be replaced, making it one of the shorter lived > sockets > that I can remember. The Conroe samples I've seen thus far are S775, which suggests the socket is good into 2007 at least. > Now, I see from what you're telling me you're buying AGP based > Pentium IV > 775 (so 865PE modified type boards). That's fine, lots of people > use those > (though Intel specifically says it is not a supported design). So, > you > lower your power consumption by going with an AGP card, and even > high end > AGP cards like the 6800Ultra don't use the kind of power that a > X850, 7800, > etc. use. http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2005q2/geforce-7800gtx/power.gif I'd say thats 'the kind of power' the X850XT and 7800GXT use. It's a little lower under load, but it's idle (non-3d) power draw is higher! -_-_ James Boswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 1653327 | AIM : TorazChryx MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
