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My 7800xt pulls about 230 watts at full bore, giving me my monitor's refresh rate in FPS, 144. Limiting the framerate to 72 results in no tearing and drops the GPU watts to 170. Worth it.

Halving your frame rate is worth approximately a cent an hour?

Just consider! If you're gaming 80 hours a week you could save $3.50 off your monthly bill. 12 hours a day gaming, such savings!

Adding a frame limiter and dropping the resolution a bit saves me 200W. Yay RTX3090

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