Originally Posted by piranha 
I agree; many people like myself will need to buy a new beefier PSU when contemplating a next gen video card.
With Intel and AMD achieving CPU's with low power consumptions it makes me wonder why the video card manufacturers have'nt achieved the same.
It's a rather pathetic affair really. Processor manuactures have worked hard to get a good performance/power ratio and all that, and I might add the billions that made it happen in R&D has gone to waste if GPUs, babys compaired to microprocessors think they can come along and gobble up the "free" power.
*EDIT*
By badys, I should point out that i'm speaking in technology development, not size or power ^^