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

[Slay0r]

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.

Well.. My thought was generalized to the world as a whole, I wasn't referring to one country, not yours so to speak, since I frankly don't know what goes on over there in particular because I'm not documented enough! I can just take your word for it. As for the battery changing thing, I replied down below.

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.

While to an extent we may agree here, I'd rather have a not so efficient diesel that can do 1000miles with one tank of fuel rather than have to stop every tenth of that to swap batteries!

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.

I don't know enough about power castration within the driver to elaborate a proper comment on this, but it doesn't sound completely true. If it was the case, overclocking would give gains until the power profile maximum is reached, then start being useless. Is this the case or I'm misunderstanding your reasoning?