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well I'm going to have to actually edit this video together a little bit but this is going to be my final video about the power consumption of the gtx 480 4-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 degrees on all four cards and what I'm going to do is I'm going to run 3dmark vantage along with a couple instances of prime 95 in the background and the cat is moving the projector don't do that here get it get away from there founded mouse well it's not a real Mouse it's like a 20 minutes but no please it over there okay so yeah those are my baseline temperatures and we're going to have a closer look with 3dmark 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 hovers between about 900 watts to about 1,100 watts you can see the she's getting in the boat right now so sitting at about a thousand watts from the wall and 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 the other here or not happens every time in that particular benchmark but the new Calico one is actually the one that I see a little bit more power consumption on and 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 calicos already up around 1200 watts I've seen this one peak as high as about thirteen hundred watts but just on the topic of heat again really quick here I just want to talk a little bit about what's going on at the back of the system so from here I mean I can feel the heat 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 airflow pushing the heat away from it I can feel it radiating off there at about probably five six inches away and even the stickers that are on the back of these video cards have been all peeled off just by operating for for a couple days here on the weekend so let me see what our power consumptions like now yeah so we're sitting at about nine hundred and thirty wats so basically the worst case scenario I've seen is around 1,200 1,200 25 watts or rather sorry 1300 1300 25 watts so even like that you're only actually pushing about 1,100 watts DC you've got about 400 watts to spare on this 1500 watt silverstone strider modular power supply I'm just going to exit the benchmark now so 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 peeked around 87 degrees on the top 1 88 on the next one 88 and then 90 so that bottom one which doesn't have the proper ventilation slot actually doesn't get that much hotter but 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 4-way sli i'm going to go ahead and tear the system down now but it was definitely fun and maybe i'll play with it a little bit more before I before I completely tear it apart oh yeah one other thing I wanted to say right with about 400 watts of extra capacity this is a pretty bare-bones 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 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 watt 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 that was a big part of the reason why i asked silverstone if we could feature them in this video's or 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