Using 2 PSU has CLoD kicking it in high gear!

[Rattlehead]

Originally Posted by Korn

System 3:
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850, 4GB Memory, NVIDIA 780i Chipset, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra SLI, an optical drive, and four hard drives. For our third example, we chose some of the most demanding products for testing. In particular, the 780i Chipset from NVIDIA has the highest power consumption of all chipsets we've tested so far, drawing a constant 69W. (There is of course some variation in power consumption even from chips of the same family, and the features and extra chips on each motherboard differ from manufacturer to manufacturer. Our particular 780i is an EVGA motherboard.) The idle power consumption for this setup is around 310W, and once we place of full load on everything power consumption increases to 544W.
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Duly noted.

But I had an 8800GTX, with a 530w Aopen PSU, and the rest of the system was the same as in my sig.
My PSU was taking strain, no doubt about it. It was runinng hot and the fan was spinning like mad. It didn't do that with my older 9800 Pro.
The PSU was about two years older than the card at the time, which might explain my problem, but there you have it. The system was not overclocked either.

Maybe someone can explain it?