power consumption of older videocards [vs GF8-series]?

shunx · Post by **shunx** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:15 pm

Does anyone know roughly how many watts a gaming videocard from ~5 years ago consumes? I have a Geforce 4 Ti which I've cooled simply by unplugging the stock fan and blowing a quiet 80mm fan at 12V on top of the GPU. Basically I'm curious if one could do the same thing to a lower end Geforce 8 card like 8600GT which uses 43w supposedly.

shunx · Post by **shunx** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:40 pm

Found a link, about 30w for GF4Ti4200:
http://www.tecchannel.de/_misc/img/deta ... A330BF900C

So a 8600GT uses about 15watts more. Maybe it can be cooled by a quiet 92mm or 120mm fan.

lechuck · Post by **lechuck** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:55 am

Maybe is this THE table we are looking for:

http://www.playtool.com/pages/vidtable/table.html