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- Dec 28, 2002
Hi all, my friend has a media server with a 2.53GHz P4, and like, 4 hard drives which he leaves folding 24/7 as it goes about it's media chores. It was powered by a generic 350w psu - which recently exploded. His primary system (gaming system) fell down my driveway after he slipped on ice, and got kinda f'd up (mobo = dead, case = bent to holy hell), so he put his Radeon 9800Pro in that other computer to use as he waits for his order to arrive from the egg. Well, he said about 10-20min after he put the radeon in the media server, the thing's psu exploded into a nice plume of smoke and stink Now, normally the server has a Kyro-II agp card in it, and he seems convinced that, though the PSU was prolly about to die, that the Radeon's tiny bit of extra basal load caused the thing to die. I am a bit perplexed by that, because I dont see how the radeon could possibly draw that much extra power idle to have caused the PSU to fail. I mean, wouldnt something as simple as drives spinning up or regular load cause the same thing to have happened?
Though it would be nice to get your opinions on the above, my primary question is this: Just how much more power does a Radeon (9800Pro for example) draw when idle, compared to a lesser model card?
Though it would be nice to get your opinions on the above, my primary question is this: Just how much more power does a Radeon (9800Pro for example) draw when idle, compared to a lesser model card?