How much power does your video card use?
With everything going green it was only a matter of time before we implemented some sort of standard power consumption testing in the labs. With that being said, graphic cards just felt like a great candidate. With the available configurations, Crossfire and SLI companied by the myriad of cards available on the market, makes it ideal to pit power vs. performance vs. the dollar

Graphics card test bed with an ATI Diamond Radeon HD 4850 card.
Watts up? Pro ES
Watts up? Pro ES power consumption meter.
CNET Labs test bed A
Watts up? power consumption graph
CNET Labs test bed A
A shot of the huge heat sync and fan that keeps the Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition cool.
EA's Crysis
EA's Crysis game cover
Test bed A
Graphics card test bed from another angle
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