Quote Originally Posted by |3ourne View Post
which planet have you been living in ???? I have run Nforce and ATI chipsets and I can say for a fact that ATI chipset never goes over 40C , no matter the voltage , no matter the HT , no matter the FSB. I have an MSI K9A platinum which has passive cooling on nb and sb and it rocks 350 mhz day in day out without blinking or melting the hsf. Try raising the volts on an nforce based mobo and you will see how cool they run.

Please do not spread misinformation or add ridiculous nonsense to a decent thread.
You see when you say "never" it makes people prove you wrong. Have you tried putting max volts through your chipset &/or volt modding it? There is always a way to send a chip over 40c.

I do expect the RD7xx chips to be cool running but they might sacrifice a couple of features compared to the nForce 7xx chips which will undoubtedly run hotter.