Real Power Consumption - 4870 X2 & GTX295 out of Spec!

[Shintai]

I'm sorry but the electric/hybrid car market is a big joke. Mainly because the arabs won't let an actual substitute for gas on the market, because that means less money for them. This may sound very childish and/or unlikely but you just have to look at the amount of good ideas for "clean" energy that get thrown in the bin for unclear reasons.

Look at what we have now. electric cheapo cars that won't even do 100mph and that will run out of battery charge in less than 100miles. Or that failure of the hybrid prius, which gets its ass spanked by the newer 1.3/1.4l diesels in terms of mpg and performance. The market REALLY does want you to overlook the green cars as of now.

Back on topic, I'm sure the cards weren't designed to run a very heavy stress test. If you game/render/work on them and they overheat, then that's another matter. AND if they draw double than what they're advertised to draw, then you have the right to complain. I mean, just look at how big the stock gfx cooling solutions are getting.. Soon we'll need a case with its own airflow just for the card itself. The problem is that both NV and AMD will not back down on their specs/anything, since we still buy them no matter what they draw, because they're the best of their league..

First fo all. Arabs have nothing to say. This is something the entire country is geared towards. Secondly I think you failed to understand the concept of the bettery changing stations. Its no different than putting gas on your car. Its just faster with the battery change.

And hybrids was always a joke. Same reason the Volt is an utter disaster (But thats just how GM works and why they can never be saved). Pure electric is the way. Plus a gas/diesel engine is so horrible in efficiency that you can get twice the power by putting the fuel into a powerplant, convert it to electricty and then charge a battery and use it in a car.

In terms of the power consumption. Furmark is not really a power virus. And even if, can the GPUs throttle when they overheat? The answer is no.

Its seen ebfore, atleast with older nVidia cards that drivers+game pushed the GPUs beyond their limits. And there is artificial limits in both nVidia and AMD drivers to keep games running within the power profile.