For better or worse, the amount of power required by top tier PC gaming systems has been on the rise over the last few years. Lead in large part by a leap in video card power consumption – gone are the days where a flagship video card would draw just 250 Watts – the required and recommended wattages for high-end systems have started encroaching on the kind of power that dual GPU systems required barely half a decade ago. So although dual GPU configurations themselves have all but died, their high power requirements have been replaced with even more energy-hungry video cards and CPUs.
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