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Review: Inno3D (NVIDIA) GeForce GTX 295 Platinum single-PCB graphics card

by Tarinder Sandhu on 27 July 2009, 08:51 3.55

Tags: GeForce GTX 295 Platinum Edition (186.18), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), Inno3D

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Temps, and power-draw

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The new cooler does a very good job at keeping the two GPUs cool...without causing a racket.

Power consumption

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Often overlooked, idle power-draw is important. Here, NVIDIA's best card has a significant lead over ATI's, to the tune of 55W over a system-wide evaluation. That's around £15 per year in electricity costs, based on a 40-hour week. Load power numbers are closer.

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