Interview with AMD's Eric Demers

[onethreehill]

R3D: On to a rather burning issue: looking back, do you still think it was a good idea to setup the RV770 cooling solution as you did, with a focus on silence rather than thermal performance?

Eric: We went through a lot of feedback we received, as well as further investigating the topic, and it turns out that the majority of users are far more sensitive to the noise associated with the cooling solution, than they are to GPU temperatures, which led as to aim for the most silent possible operation. Considering that, for stock operation, the cooling solutions we have implemented are more than adequate in terms of thermal performance, as they keep the chips well within specifications- we rate the chips to work up to 105o C which is quite a bit higher than the temperatures you'll be normally seeing. Of course, if you're considering significant overclocking, you'll probably be better served by the alternate cooling solution that our AIB partners bring, as some of those are better suited to such a task than our reference design.

http://www.rage3d.com/interviews/atichats/undertheihs/

[eric66]

nice interview so no support for cuda seems nvidia is alone in that one

[Shintai]

nice interview so no support for cuda seems nvidia is alone in that one

CUDA died when Larrabee was announced.

Its nice to see they picked the more quiet solution. I got that aswell on my 8800GT. And I love it. No vacuum cleaner running lose in the chassis.

[nn_step]

Good Read

[Sparky]

CUDA died when Larrabee was announced.

Its nice to see they picked the more quiet solution. I got that aswell on my 8800GT. And I love it. No vacuum cleaner running lose in the chassis.

Yes and no, the quiet is nice but I just seem to have this mental block about my card running idle at 60C But I went water on my 4870 now so no worries anymore
My old X1900XT was painful though, that's for sure. Noisy AND hit 90C with stock cooler.