seriously? you're saying "wtf" over 1.5 watts at idle, 4.2 watts at idle? at this price point, i'm going for gaming at minimum settings (ugh, never again) but most likely, just being able to RENDER an image at said specifications (dx10/10.1) but not at realtime. seriously, someone at this price point is going to either choose ATI or NVIDIA, either due to brand loyalty/past performance ...or not really care what they're going to get.
those watts aren't going to matter until the government is counting every watt we waste and at that point will be harassing me and my distributed computing setup opposed to joe blow's gt210 and their GPU's power usage...