Quote Originally Posted by jas420221 View Post
lulz, your vga wont be pulling 200W with only aero going....no frikin way. Your GPU may not pull 200W fully loaded. Maybe with an overclock and loaded sure. But aero? No.
I'm going by this review which did the card I have and showed idle power consumption with Aero as 200W

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/gra...lden-sample/11

I've read that the HD4870 at idle pulls around 170W so I am not sure if I am misinformed