Quote Originally Posted by Mats View Post
I'm just plain confused about idle power consumption for the 4850, have the power consumption dropped with newer SKU's or drivers or not?

Anandtech: The 4850 system uses 43 W more in idle than the GTX 260 system.
Bit-Tech: The 4850 and the GTX 260 system uses the same amount of power in idle.
i780 SLI/x38(Bit-tech) vs i790 SLI (Anandtech) maybe

x38 is far superiour to i780 in power consumption. (Anything is hoho)