Quote Originally Posted by largon View Post
Hornet331,
The thing with RV770's idle consumption is, GDDR5 is to blame. RV770 GPU chip is very power efficient in idle and manual downclocking of the VRAM will drop the consumption to sub-30W figures. HD4850 idles around 25W at stock, without manual tampering...
that doesnt matter... hows jo avarage suposed to fix the short comings from ati.

Don't advertise a card with low idel consuption when its not true, and then even lie about "delivering" it later.