Quote Originally Posted by grimREEFER View Post
in the case of a 480, it will be able to heat up a room pretty well cause it's certainly not getting hot just because of an incompetent cooler.
During the summer after G80's release, I had a 8800 Ultra in the stock configuration in my Antec P182.

Here in SoCal, temperatures were consistently in the 90 F+ range... so my card often hit artifacting to the point where I had to keep my case open.

I left it on overnight once, and when I woke up and walked out of my room, the air was noticeably cooler I eventually got a Thermalright HR-03+ to cool it, but damn, after that summer, I've been wary of getting cards on the high end of heat/TDP without water cooling.

And to see that this card is even hotter??