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Old Feb 19, 2010, 04:14 AM   #297
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Originally Posted by Necrofire View Post
Well, 110W would be the whole card, not just the core.
But, at 110W, the card would be pulling ~9.2Amps at 12V. This would come out to ~94A if everything on the card worked on 1.158Volts. So the core alone draws somewhat less than 94 amps total, but it would still be a hefty number given how relatively low the voltage is.

Think about it this way:
Given a cpu says it's TDP is 125W. If the voltage is 1.4, then it would be using ~90 amps.
I bet those traces would start getting warm at that amperage.

dude u are making a mistake...
The card uses 12v that is then transformed into 1,158...so 12v are the ones to use in the P=VI formula....so the AMPS are 9,1A...94A cannot be supplied by a PSU..
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