@ Elite Bastards"At idle, our system when coupled with the Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 uses around 135 Watts of power, which increases to 170 Watts in a CrossFire configuration, almost identical to the power consumption of a single Radeon HD 4890. During video playback the Radeon HD 4890 actually uses slightly less power than our CrossFire setup, with a single Radeon HD 4770 board consuming a tad under 150 Watts.
Finally, rendering an intensive 3D rendering workload, a single Radeon HD 4770 in league with our Core i7 system uses 185 Watts, which rises to 258 Watts in a CrossFire configuration, less than the Radeon HD 4890's 275 Watt consumption under load."
Tuesday Web Reviews:
HARDWARE
ASUS Radeon EAH4870X2 Tri-Fan Graphics Card
Silverstone SG03 Sugo SFF Small Form Factor Case Review @ Tweaknews
Thecus N7700 SATA 7-Disk RAID NAS @ Benchmark Review
New Neoseeker Review: Sparkle Calibre P980
Diamond HD 4770 Review @ OCC
Cooler Master V8 CPU Cooler Review @ Hardware Canucks
An Introduction To AMD Spin-Off Global Foundries @ HotHardware.com
Peripherals
Otterbox 3510 Waterproof Carry-All Case Review @ OCModShop
Choiix Air-Through Thin Notebook Cooling Pad Review @ Ninjalane
SteelSeries World of Warcraft MMO Gaming Mouse Review @ OCModShop