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that's were you are off. I can confirm your 200W peak for the quad (we measured)... but we also MEASURED that the 8800 GTX GPU "only" dumps a max of 100W of heat ito the coolant, 117W if you have a full coverage block (you stated 200..).

This being said, what your radiators sees is almost never 200+100+100W, because unless you are intentionaly stress testing, there are no games or apps that I know of that load both these high-end CPU and GPU's at 100% all at once.

This is a quote frojm a reputable review.
"The GeForce 8800 GTX is obviously a very power-hungry part, as you might have guessed ... NVIDIA tells us that the TDP of the card is around the 185W mark"

I believe Marci stated that the TDP is the theoretically MAX heat load a chip can get. This is also how i got my 200W TDP off quadcores. I pluged them in a voltage calculator, and it spat out 200-220W depending on the OC of the chip.

Now, we got a graphic intensive game, which will load the cores up at 100% on both in sli.

Lets not even add up CPU temps. Now, if you blast up all the AA's and Filters, that gfx card will get loaded near 100%

So lets use a bit more conservative numbers of 170W. Times that by 2 you get 340W.

Ummm... Quad @ 200W gives you 540W for games like supreme commander with full options and settings set on max.


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Yes i supose it would give you "acceptable" temps. Definite within the safe zone. But for a radiator which was only ment to handle 300-400W of heat. :\ Thats a bit too much stress.

Anyhow i wont get into anymore. Its just something that brought up my concern.