Quote Originally Posted by spursindonesia View Post
I think this is the time for the comeback of a dual PCB card, using bigger and/or longer PCB & heatsink, stronger fan, and much beefier VRM design. nVidia needs to swallow their ego, the chip has such potential, hampering it with such puny design as GTX 590 can be called PC enthusiast crime.
I think better engineering on the boards in general is needed.

Lets look at the gtx 580. Nice card and a decent PCB. Now lets look at what MSI has done in the form of the lighting. They clock the card so that it is 5-7 percent faster and reduce power consumption by 6.6 percent while doing it according to tech powerup. If this type of energy profile was applied to the gtx 590 using the lightnings gtx 580 PCB as a basis, we could probably have a card that clocks very similarly to the gtx 580 at stock clocks rather than this disaster of a card. Sure it might need an aggressive power control in stuff like furmark, but in games we would have a much better card than its current form.

I think NV should give up on the shroud design and give the card a beefier cooler. Power consumption is so bad on this card because temps are too high.

Nv just got so lazy with this dual gpu card. I think they assumed AMD was going to clock the 6990 lower than the 5970 because of the higher power consumption of cayman compared to cypress. So when this turned out not to be the cause, they overspec'ed their card to compete and the rest of the story writes itself.