PowerColor 4870 Power Consumption

[Zap_Warrior]

Hi guys, i bought a PowerColor 4870 1 GB yesterday. I wanted to know how can i reduce power consumption of my graphic card?
Most of the times i'm not using high graphic games and my system is in idle status but as i know the graphic card uses about 140 watt while it's idle
Is there any program for reducing power consumption of graphic cards?

Also i wanted to ask if i reduce graphic card's memory clock & GPU clock, does it damage the graphic card? Could it be a way for reducing power consumption?

Thank you for answering my questions

 

[sirkillalot]

what mother board do you have ?

 

[Zap_Warrior]

ASUS P5Q Deluxe

 

[sirkillalot]

o ok im not sure about asus i just got myself an gigabyte and it came with a programe that saved watts from the cpu called easy saver it takes it from 3.2ghz to 800mhz
did you check the cd?

it also dropped my cpu heat 10 decress

 

[Zap_Warrior]

Yes, ASUS has the same thing but...
It doesn't work for my graphic card
Check this out:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/263358-30-engine

 

[Zap_Warrior]

Any one?
What about changing the frequencies?

 

[Zap_Warrior]

Heeeeeeey guys...
Is there any program to gain control of power consumption of the graphic card?

 

[sirkillalot]

i dont think so cause if you start messing with that all sorts of *** can happen
but if u lower a cpu it just doesnt run as fast