Less power draw at idle with latest driver?

[CyberDruid]

Just installed the latest driver for my 2 x HD3870X2 Xfire set up and saw a significant drop in watts drawn at the wall when idling in 2D.

I was wondering if anyone else can corroborate this finding?

I am seeing about 17 watts less draw at the wall now.

Nothing else has changed.

Unless I am missing something.

Gaming it still draws buttloads of juice:yepp:

[CrimInalA]

what driver are you using exactly ?

[CyberDruid]

9.9

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp64/radeonx-xp64

[W1zzard]

maybe you are seeing ulps enabled on your cards. it's a new power saving method that turns off most of the slave card when idle. check if gpuz 0.3.5 crashes on your system, also look for a ULPSEnable or EnableULPS registry key

[CyberDruid]

Thanks!

[CrimInalA]

my 2900 has exactly the same power draw as before

[CyberDruid]

Thanks for the input guys.