Building a gaming PC

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

The EVGA GeForce GTX 660 has a minimum requirement of 24 amps on its own 12V+ rail.

No way the board is consuming almost 300 watts. You would burn skin touching the heat sink. When electronics was consuming that much power, well, that is when Dec VAX would not operate unless the motherboard was fully covered with water.

That's the spec number we give to naive consumers. An actual and useful number is measured. And would be significantly less.