I just won't tell the wife! Actually, can't remember where but I saw a chart showing actual, measured power draw of the 9950 and it was some 20w less than the 9850 as measured at the mains socket.

Also read somewhere else that as the AMD's have the memory controller built in then when comparing AMD's to Intel's some account has to be taken of the Intel Northbridge. Makes sense but then I suppose the Northbridge on the Intel's isn't 50w+ TDP anyway!!

Cheers

Danny B