Quote Originally Posted by SparkyJJO View Post
Bah who cares about downclocking. More performance, not less
i cared about downclocking, the 4000 was a power saving failure, and i think many ati fans will hope they get their idle power act together this time around. (especially with such a small chip, they better have good power consumption)

Idle? What's that

I wouldn't think the memory uses that much in idle though, wouldn't the core clock be more of a power savings?
that statement lets us all know you havnt looked into a single detail about power consuption. reducing the ram speed can save 10-20W, reducing cpu speed will save 1-2w, reducing cpu voltage will save 10-15w. ignoring ram speed throttling is the fastest way to get bad reviews.