Power Consumption
With electricity becoming increasingly expensive across most parts of the world the need for computer components to become power efficient has never been more relevant. Graphics cards are often the most power hungry components inside a desktop system so having an efficient graphics card is very important to keeping power bills under control. Power is often correlated to heat and so lower power consumption means a graphics card is likely to run slightly cooler and put out less heat into your system meaning your other components will run cooler with improved longevity. AMD and Nvidia have both made power consumption an integral part of the way graphics cards dynamically overclock so the need for graphics card vendors to use efficient VRM and PCB designs is becoming important to maximise performance. See details of our power consumption testing procedure on the test systems and procedures page.
The only issues with this VGA around OC’ing them lies on the heath sinker for the VRAM. They are cooled by air thereby if you OC’ way too much (like 400 to 700 Mhz) after a little even while GPU lies at 40-50 celsius, you’ll get artifacts.
What it is needed it’s a direct cooling unit for the VRAM aswell.