maroon1: ^^
Get it through your heads people. Total System draw, not the card itself....
Thats doesn't change the fact that HD3870 X2 consume more power than GTX at full load
Tom's Hardware was using the same exact motherboard and CPU for both Nvidia and ATI video cards. So that means that Total System draw was higher when using HD3870 X2, because HD3870 X2 consume more power than GTX