Quote Originally Posted by SKYMTL View Post
NVIDIA has shown that ultra high end performance DOESN'T NEED to come with a tradeoff in terms of high acoustics or high core temperatures.
Really no tradeoffs? The power consumption is around the 6990 is OC mode and the temps...



http://www.hardware.fr/articles/747-...thermique.html

6990 : http://www.hardware.fr/articles/747-...thermique.html

Noise levels are lower, but calling it "very quiet" is a stretch. Although they indeed make say, what was AMD thinking? I guess it will be up to the AIBs to design something better there.