AMD R790 Thermal Disipation

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It has nothing to do with tweaking, people have reported the same. Sending boards back, getting RMA replacements which can't do the same settings as the board they sent back. It's completely random.

Running sync (which was faster) took so much voltage, thats why it took me 1.7 pretty much to get that sort of FSB out of it.

ICFX was a nice tweaking board, but RD600 is the worst chipset out of 965/975/680i/P35. Slowest clock for clock because of the dual bus design to give full unlinkable memory, poor raid performance, seemed very fragile with the amount of dead boards.

I think your confusing what DFI and what Ati does with this board. How can Ati make the board fragile? And the raid performance is still ahead of nVidia so the board is between intel and nVidia in that area. http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/02/...lls/page9.html

It's still a cooler board then what both intel and nvidia has to offer. If you crank up the voltage to say around 2V on the RD600 and then on the 680 and and we use the same cooler, the 680 would be the hotter running chipset. http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/02/...ls/page11.html

And yes the chipset is slower clock for clock but it's still faster in 3dgames.

Btw you have en insanely bad board if it takes you 1.7V to get 450+ FSB. I've returned boards for less.