Quote Originally Posted by annihilat0r View Post
PCI-SIG consortium does stop manufacturers from making cards above 300w@stock or they don't get PCI-EX certification. I don't think Nvidia would forgo this just to make a faster card.
apparently this didn't hurt ati, their hd 4870 x2 is around 380w.

if you go to alienware and tell them they can have the fastest graphics card in the world, for a good price and some marketing development funds on top of that, but it's outside of some pci sig spec, do you think they will care?