Does video cards consume more power when you increase the quality settings in the game to high and vise versa?

also tell me can running a lot of background programs cause more power consumption of the system? programs such as virus/spyware and anti virus like symatic

Does video cards consume more power when you increase the quality settings in the game to high and vise versa?
Yes. The higher the quality, the more energy is needed to make it work. Sometimes it only needs a little bit more, but other times the power usage is ridiculously high compared to the improvements. It depends on how much extra power you're willing to spend.





For your second question, yes, running background programs slows down your system. It requires more energy to operate multiple programs (just like having a lot of light bulbs on in your house). The energy usage is only compounded when the computer tries to compensate for the speed drain. In addition to needing more power to run more programs, your computer ALSO has to maintain performance speed by using more power.





The type of program doesn't matter (antivirus, PC game, movies, Microsoft Word). What does matter is how much energy it takes to operate the system. When I had Norton Antivirus my computer would poke along at snail speed. However, when I tried Avast antivirus I hardly noticed a difference. And they were both equally effective at hounding out viruses/spyware.
Reply:HI. I dont't think it would consume more power at higer settings.


Your monitor though may be operating at a higher frequency, but even that shouldn't consume much more power.
Reply:Yes, you will consume more power. Second part is yes and no...you only consume more power if you scan your computer manually since you use more computational cycle of the CPU, thus more power is being consume.