Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
going above 300W is painful... you need very expensive cooling above that point, and you break compatibility with pci-e specs, so i think thats unlikely.
Saaya, I thought we had a PCIe rep confirm that neither the HD5970 nor the GTX295 were certified as PCIe compatiable, because they could pass the 300W TDP limit. So if the GTX495 goes over 300W, and Nvidia can sufficiently cool it, losing the PCIe compatiability should not be a big deal, right?