well I'm going to have to actually edit this vid video together a little bit but
this is going to be my final video about the power consumption of the GTX 480
four-way SLI you can see my cards are slightly overclocked here but not not by
a tremendous margin and here I'm going to take a baseline idle temperature
reading so I'm at 67 65 69 and 63° on
all four cards and uh what I'm going to do is I'm going to run 3D Mark Vantage
along with a couple instances of prime 995 in the background and the cat is
moving the projector don't do that here get it get away from there found a mouse
well it's not a real Mouse it's like a toy mouse but go play with it over there
okay so um yeah those are my Baseline temperatures and we're going to have a
closer look with 3D Mark Vantage running with a couple instances of prime 95 in
the background I think you will find the results quite
um interesting the Jane Nash test covers
between about 900 watts to about 1100 Watts you can see the uh she's getting
in the boat right now so it's sitting at about 1,000 Watts from the wall and uh
this one there's kind of a funny thing that I that I want to show you here as
the plane starts to take off the fans ramp up on the video cards check this
out I don't know if you'll be able to hear it or
not happens every time in that particular Benchmark but uh the new
Calico one is actually the one that I see a little bit more power consumption
on and uh while I'm waiting for that to load why don't I talk a little bit about
the heat output this system pretty much instantly heats up
the room I'm in here so I'm just going to kind of stand in the center and look
around so you can see about how big this room is and you can pretty much forget
about gaming with the door closed if you have a system like this as soon as you
flip the switch on some kind of 3D application it gets hot
so you can see new Calico is already up around 1200 watts I've seen this one
Peak as high as about 1300 Watts but
just on the topic of heat again really quick here I just want to talk a little
bit about uh what's going on at the back of the system so from here I mean I can
feel the heat uh being blown out the back of this case it's about like a
space heater from a distance like this and then even the heat pipes that don't
have any active air flow pushing the heat away from it I can feel it
radiating off there at about probably 5 6 in away and even the stickers that are
on the back of these video cards have been all peeled off just by operating
for uh for a couple days here on the weekend so let me see what our power
consumption is like now yeah so we're sitting at about 930 W so basically the
worst case scenario I've seen is around 1 12200 1225 Watts or rather sorry 1300
1325 Watts so even like that you're only
actually pushing about 1100 WT DC you've got about 400 WS to spare on this 1500 w
Silverstone Strider uh modular power supply and I'm just going to exit The
Benchmark now so that you can have a look at the actual card temperatures Now
understand this is a little bit of a warm room but that's the reality of it
is if you're if you're running these cards and you're not outside it's a warm
room so you can see that we peaked around 87° on the top one 88 on the next
one 88 and then 90 so that bottom one which doesn't have the uh the proper
ventilation slot actually doesn't get that much hotter but um it does get a
couple degrees hotter than the other cards so thank you for checking out my
series of videos on the GTX 480 four-way
SLI I'm going to go ahead and tear this system down now but it was definitely
fun and uh maybe I'll play with it a
little bit more before I uh before I completely tear it apart oh yeah one
other thing I wanted to say right with that 400 WTS of extra capacity this is a
pretty barebone system I've only got three dims of memory in here I haven't
got any hard drives I'm just running like one SSD so you throw like you know
five or six hard drives in there a couple Optical drives some more RAM
you're still going to be quite comfortable but this system is like I
wouldn't even use a 1200 W power supply to power this anything less than the
Silverstone Strider 1500 which is one of the only such power supplies on the
market is pretty much what I'd recommend and uh that was a big part of the reason
why I asked Silverstone if we could uh feature them in this video are in this
series of videos so thank you for checking them out and now I'm actually
done and yeah obviously in any warm area there's bound to be cats lurking about