Graphics Energy efficient gfx card?

Hi all,

Only just discovered that my Pentium-M based HTPC is still pushing about 200W when is use.
And I think a lot of it is down to the graphics card.

So I am wondering is there any known low-power consumption graphics card on the market at the moment?
I am happy with 7300GT/7600GS kind of performance.

Thanks.

 

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Gfx cards get worse and worse per generation when it comes to power usage. your prob best off with a passive unit with no need for a external power requirements but as for energy efficient GPU's? no such thing.

I think you should stick with what you have, or try and downgrade.

 

I have already downgraded to a passive 6600GT with no need for an external power.
But need something better than that.

 

But for a HTPC? are you gaming on it? The next step would be a passive 7600Gs.

 

Get a ati2400 or a geforce 8500 for htpc they can offload a lot for h.264, mpeg 2 stuff for hdtv.

 

Cheers guys.

7900GT seems like a good balance, but 50w is a bit more than I would like.
In an ideal world I would like close to 15w as possible on idle or light load, 35w on full load.
And yes sorry I forgot to mention, I do do a lot of HD decoding, but I don't game on it.

Will have a look at the 8500, never really paid much attention to it at all in the past.
Seems quite difficult to find a passive one that takes only one slot though.
How much power does it use?

Thanks.

 

According to this the 8500GT will use near 200w on load.

The Nvidia FX5200 apprently uses about 45w on load.

 

Cheers for the chart.
Although it is a bit hard to tell how much power does the 8500GT actually use on its on from this chart.
Guessing 20w idle, 40w full load?

Thanks.