[rescue] x86 power question

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Peter Corlett wrote:

> How can a plain home PC possibly justify 1kW?

A PCI express video card just came across my desk five minutes ago, on
the way to $ork's compatibility testing lab.

Said card has SIX HUNDRED AND FORTY MEGABYTES of DDR3 video RAM.

I suspect the power budget for that device is astronomical.

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