GTX 280 Power Consumption

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What is the power consumption of GTX 280? Wikipedia has it listed as 178 Watts peak 3D load. Link to the page found on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_200_Series

 

[Intel_man]

http://www.computerforum.com/90110-power-recommendations-video-card.html

 

[StrangleHold]

What is the power consumption of GTX 280? Wikipedia has it listed as 178 Watts peak 3D load. Link to the page found on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_200_Series

From what I've read it can be between 145/150W idle upto 290/300W under full load.

http://www.computerforum.com/90110-power-recommendations-video-card.html

Thats just what the minimum P/S req. are for a whole general/average system running the card.