Quote Originally Posted by W1zzard View Post
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?
Why would AMD go to such trouble keeping it below 300W then? Talking about 5970.