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Do high-end graphics cards raise your electricity bill by much?
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Mar 15, 202616544 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I currently own an Radeon HD 5570 graphics card which "supposedly" consumes a very small amount of power. The problem is that it stutters during some games and movies. My machine is an Intel quad core i5 - 750 with 4 gig ram running on windows 7 using a 550w Antec Basiq PSU. I plan to upgrade to th…
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Fix for: Do high-end graphics cards raise your electricity bill by much?
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After upgrading your power supply, your computer will continue to draw (almost) the same amount of power as it did before. The only additional power draw will be from the requirements of the new video card (plus a bit more for the internal losses of…
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