The temp is still a mystery to me, it just sounds too much for 65nm even for a weak cooling solution. It has to be REALLY crap cooler design then if it will bring temps almost as high as my leadtek POS 6800GT custom single slot cooler or perhaps was it badly seated (not sure) but it needed 2x120mm fans around the card with stock cooler to provide temps as "low" as up to ~87C load overclocked. Without the extra fans around it, it would have been like 95-98C load and switching to a Zalman VF700-CU provided about ~17C load temp drop.Originally Posted by mascaras
I still wouldn't be too suprised if either they had the worst ambient temps ever or the heatsink is making bad contact. 90nm to 65nm is a big difference, as we've seen lots of comparisions between this with CPUs and it does quite a difference, now it does for sure also do for GPUs.
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