Quote Originally Posted by KRich View Post
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
Thats HD 4870+ rest of the system, not just gpu alone. HD 4870 load by itself only uses up 120-130W I think.