Anyone know how many watts video cards use?

[xTYBALTx]

I've seen something like it before. . . 6800GT uses so many watts, X800XL uses so many, 9700Pro, blah blah.

 

[Powermoloch]

I"m not really sure, but a good estimate around 150-200 watts depend on gameplay. Just to be really safe in general, it is nice to have a good 400-500 watt psu, even 350 will do fine with a strong 18 Amps on the 12V+ rail.

 

[essdeeay]

Although I run a Shuttle SN45G, I've got Athlon XP 2500+, 80Gb HDD, 1Gb DDR, Audigy II soundcard, and Radeon 9800 Pro All-In-Wonder. It all worked with a 200w PSU until I added the Radeon, then I needed to upgrade to 250w to make it work. If you've got a standard 1 drive system and nothing *too* fancy you can get away with stock PSUs, ie. 300w with not much trouble.

Steve