Radeon 5970 Overclocking: The VRM Temperature Bottleneck

[LedHed]

What exactly is your point? What do you think long periods of furmark would have done to my card on the stock cooler? Again, if you can afford a $600+ card you can afford better cooling. So this card has a temp bottleneck? So does yours. It's max clocks (hell lets say stock clocks) are still a better bang for your buck than a GTX295 with lets say your max clocks. Anyone who has seen my post history knows that I'm no ATI fanboy, not by a long shot, but stop comparing your 295 to a 5970. Just stop.

I keep saying over and over this isn't the 295 vs the 5970, it's strictly 5970 thermal issues when OCing on stock cooling. I thought many people would find this interesting and it may give a heads up if they want to OC to buy a better cooler.

The only reasons I've mentioned the 295 is because it's the only other dual GPU card on the market anywhere near the 5970 launch. Pretty logical in my opinion the 2nd best and the best temperature comparisons.

I guess you could say my point is ATI needs better cooling on the VRMs of the card, plain and simple. Nothing NVIDIA vs ATI, just a thermal problem.