Over_Lord
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| System Name | BAH! - - tHE ECo FReAK |
|---|---|
| Processor | Athlon II X4 620 @ 1.15V |
| Motherboard | ASUS 785G EVO |
| Cooling | Stock |
| Memory | Corsair Titanium 4GB DDR3 1600MHz C9 |
| Video Card(s) | Sapphire HD5850 @ 1.049v |
| Storage | Seagate 7200.12 500GB |
| Display(s) | BenQ G2220HD |
| Case | Cooler Master Elite 334 |
| Audio Device(s) | Onboard |
| Power Supply | Corsair VX550W |
| Software | Windows 7 Ultimate x64 |
1st off, hi guys, I'm new to this forum, and some of you may have seen my posts and replied to it too. I've been eyeing this forum for 2 years now but never had the (not time), what to say, I was just that lazy to hit the "Register" button you know..
Okay to business, this isn't GoGreen for PowerColour's GoGreen FYI, this is the real deal, the actual stuff. I've seen many users buy:-
1. High end GPUs
2. That are major power guzzlers
3. OC them to help the power consumption
Same case applies to CPUs. So here I decide that NO, we can do something to reduce power consumption(do you know USA is the world's major POWER 'EATER'), and at the same time, continue FOLDING(great job you guys) and GAMING(that we can't live without).
Lets start with WHAT we can do...
To those who have i7 and GTX480 or similar CPU/GPU(u get the idea I hope), please please don't do this 24x7 OC shit, it almost gives my head a loud buzzer for "WTF" alert!!!!
Here's what I do:-
1. My quad-core doesn't bottleneck with VSync on on any game and even if it does, I've not noticed anything, all running at STOCK clock. Note-STOCK CLOCK
I've hit the sweet spot at 1.15V CPU VCore and that's a LONG way off 1.40V default you know. Now I don't know how much I cut, but the cut by a huge percentage significant enough when more people do it together(and I mean power usage nothing else).
2. My GPU is the HD5850, and as many know, this is one GOLDEN GPU, can play all games(forget Metro 2033, it gives my card Migraine
) games great, so great I cant stop playing them haha.
Okay here's what I do:
Use MSI AfterBurner, set voltage for all profiles from the default 1.087v to 1.049v. Now again I don't know how much impact that has, but I do know for sure, voltage has the BIGGEST hand in power consumption of a card. Plus, I get 10C flat lesser temperatures on CRYSIS full loaded at 45% fan(which ain't near as loud as the speaker volume I set
).
So let me know guys, if you all are interested. I have high hopes so don't let me down wada wada blah blah, no I wont say that. Just, this ain't harming you, it helps temps that people go bald thinking about, and if your power bill comes a few dollars less, I think you'd be the happy man.
Okay to business, this isn't GoGreen for PowerColour's GoGreen FYI, this is the real deal, the actual stuff. I've seen many users buy:-
1. High end GPUs
2. That are major power guzzlers
3. OC them to help the power consumption
Same case applies to CPUs. So here I decide that NO, we can do something to reduce power consumption(do you know USA is the world's major POWER 'EATER'), and at the same time, continue FOLDING(great job you guys) and GAMING(that we can't live without).
Lets start with WHAT we can do...
To those who have i7 and GTX480 or similar CPU/GPU(u get the idea I hope), please please don't do this 24x7 OC shit, it almost gives my head a loud buzzer for "WTF" alert!!!!
Here's what I do:-
1. My quad-core doesn't bottleneck with VSync on on any game and even if it does, I've not noticed anything, all running at STOCK clock. Note-STOCK CLOCK
I've hit the sweet spot at 1.15V CPU VCore and that's a LONG way off 1.40V default you know. Now I don't know how much I cut, but the cut by a huge percentage significant enough when more people do it together(and I mean power usage nothing else).
2. My GPU is the HD5850, and as many know, this is one GOLDEN GPU, can play all games(forget Metro 2033, it gives my card Migraine
) games great, so great I cant stop playing them haha.Okay here's what I do:
Use MSI AfterBurner, set voltage for all profiles from the default 1.087v to 1.049v. Now again I don't know how much impact that has, but I do know for sure, voltage has the BIGGEST hand in power consumption of a card. Plus, I get 10C flat lesser temperatures on CRYSIS full loaded at 45% fan(which ain't near as loud as the speaker volume I set
).So let me know guys, if you all are interested. I have high hopes so don't let me down wada wada blah blah, no I wont say that. Just, this ain't harming you, it helps temps that people go bald thinking about, and if your power bill comes a few dollars less, I think you'd be the happy man.
