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Nvidia to reduce 9-series' power consumption?
written by Ciro - October 8, 2008 11:00

Nvidia's 9800 GTX, 9800 GT and 9500 GT will soon receive a BIOS update intended to lower the board's idle power consumption, or so Expreview lead us to believe.

NVIDIA has been trying to make them greener. According to some partners of the company, there is BIOS update incoming for several GeForce 9 series graphic cards. With the BIOS updated, 9800GT, 9800GTX and 9500GT will have a lower power consumption when idle.

If you have tried 9500GT, you may notice the card has a 2D/3D clock, when idle the core clock can be as low as 216MHz. But the memory frequency and shader keeps unchanged. Maybe this time NV can fix this small problem.

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