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BlockheadBrown

BlockheadBrown

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My son and I have the following:
GeForce 460 768MB
GeForce 560 Ti OC 1GB

It's tempting to jump Nvidia's ship for newer ATI cards and let it ride for a while. While I do like PhysX, it isn't technically a requirement.

I'd likely go to a Radeon 7770 for him and a Radeon 7850 for me. The upgrade for both rigs would cost around $100, after selling off the GeForce cards and another Radeon card I have lying around.

hwcompare.com shows virtually no difference between the 7770 and 460. My power savings would go way up, but I have no idea how that'd actually affect my electric bill. The computers are on all the time though.

Thoughts?

I'm hesitant to pull the trigger. Does anyone have a clue as to how much money I might save due to lower power consumption?
 
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it really doesnt affect the electric bill much... about 5-20 more with higher end psu and graphics card.. but still thats candy money brother!

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which one does your son use and which one do you use ?
 
BlockheadBrown said:
I have the 560 Ti
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i recommend you hand him your 560 ti AT ONCE or you shall by considered a bad father xD

well all jokes aside.. i personally own a corsair h100 liquid cooled rig with a OC'd 7850 and i leave it on all of the time.. i barely get any hiccups from my pc and i really dont think that your computers gonna hurt your electric bill much.. do you live in the US ?
 
HURRIC4NE said:
i recommend you hand him your 560 ti AT ONCE or you shall by considered a bad father xD

well all jokes aside.. i personally own a corsair h100 liquid cooled rig with a OC'd 7850 and i leave it on all of the time.. i barely get any hiccups from my pc and i really dont think that your computers gonna hurt your electric bill much.. do you live in the US ?
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I do.
 
With 2 new cards you'll be saving well over 100W while playing games, & I'd guess significantly less when idle (too lazy to look it up). To make it easy lets say you will save an average of 100W, tho it will be less than this.

I pay $0.20 per kWh, i.e. $0.02 per hour @100W. Doesn't sound like much but thats ~$175 a year if the computers are 24/7.
 
RavenSEAL said:
Give him the 560 and get yourself a 7950 😛
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the 680 is a REAL powersaver just incase you happen to be power savvy... why not grab 2 and give him one and you use one? when he is not using his pc... use his 680 and your 680 in SLI and let vice versa happen? cause then everyones happy as hell 😀
 
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