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Any one know what the most power efficient GPU make model are ??? 


I'm trying to get a fairly good build for Christmas but I want to make it super efficient, specially when not gaming.
sort of looking between 970 to 1070 range of nVidia cards (no media cards like 910s). it's not hard to find an efficient CPU.
I am hoping to get the total draw to 200 watts   
At the moment i am using two PC's one's a media pc for facebook, shopping, browsing wed ect, which uses 60 watts including monitor 

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Do you have a budget at all? Also if you're looking to get a lower power draw on your entire pc, a great place to start is always with the power supply. 

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1 minute ago, pasha786 said:

Do you have a budget at all? Also if you're looking to get a lower power draw on your entire pc, a great place to start is always with the power supply. 

not really but i don't want to go all out silly.  I do have a bronze power supply at the moment, but how much watts would it save me ?? 

 

Was hoping to get a 980 or 1070 :) I'm using AMD CPU at the moment , that will have to go.  
Intel much more power efficient, but GPU seem to draw 2/3rds of the power in gaming mode.
hybrid graphics maybe a low end media card to run old games like Half Life on ??
I still like playing my old games :) just don't want them drawing loads of power for old games and web browsing 
(maybe there a way of underclocking the card ??? to make it more efficient)
I'm sticking to 1080p too expensive to do the 2k or 4k push for me, though i might go for a higher refresh rate in the future  

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6 minutes ago, Liam-Wabbit said:

not really but i don't want to go all out silly.  I do have a bronze power supply at the moment, but how much watts would it save me ?? 

 

Was hoping to get a 980 or 1070 :) I'm using AMD CPU at the moment , that will have to go.  
Intel much more power efficient, but GPU seem to draw 2/3rds of the power in gaming mode.
hybrid graphics maybe a low end media card to run old games like Half Life on ??
I still like playing my old games :) just don't want them drawing loads of power for old games and web browsing 
(maybe there a way of underclocking the card ??? to make it more efficient)
I'm sticking to 1080p too expensive to do the 2k or 4k push for me, though i might go for a higher refresh rate in the future  

Right now actually if you're looking for the most efficient CPUs look at the Ryzen CPUs, they're incredibly efficient.

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1060 or 1050Ti + undervolt

Can't undervolt on Pascal without hard mods and stuff :/ 

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36 minutes ago, Liam-Wabbit said:

Any one know what the most power efficient GPU make model are ??? 


I'm trying to get a fairly good build for Christmas but I want to make it super efficient, specially when not gaming.
sort of looking between 970 to 1070 range of nVidia cards (no media cards like 910s). it's not hard to find an efficient CPU.
I am hoping to get the total draw to 200 watts   
At the moment i am using two PC's one's a media pc for facebook, shopping, browsing wed ect, which uses 60 watts including monitor 

Idle power for modern GPUs is, for all intents and purposes, the same across the board. It could be appreciably lower for less powerful cards since there's less house keeping circuitry, but otherwise for an average single user, probably not much.

 

Also even single video card high-end gaming machines won't draw more than 250W from the wall in demanding games. The last time I measured mine while running Crysis 3 it was pulling about 230W. And this is with a GTX 1080. So a less powerful card I would imagine would easily go at or below 200W from the wall.

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9 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Right now actually if you're looking for the most efficient CPUs look at the Ryzen CPUs, they're incredibly efficient.

Can't undervolt on Pascal without hard mods and stuff :/ 

Think i might just get a KVM switch and keep the gaming PC for gaming and use the media PC for old games ect
I've got till Christmas to source the parts or second hand part. see what spoils people are selling off after christmas

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maybe people could post what power their PC's are drawing from the wall on here ??? with spec 

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On 7/13/2017 at 8:38 AM, Liam-Wabbit said:

Any one know what the most power efficient GPU make model are ??? 


I'm trying to get a fairly good build for Christmas but I want to make it super efficient, specially when not gaming.
sort of looking between 970 to 1070 range of nVidia cards (no media cards like 910s). it's not hard to find an efficient CPU.
I am hoping to get the total draw to 200 watts   
At the moment i am using two PC's one's a media pc for facebook, shopping, browsing wed ect, which uses 60 watts including monitor 

find out yourself:

 https://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator

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Yes, you definitely can undervolt Pascal via software. There's a guide on the forum
 

 

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