Quote Originally Posted by Stuen4y View Post
The other components in the case. The hot air doesn't go out of the case, so we CARE if the card is hot or not .
True. But then again, most cards that exhaust into the case share this issue... As in all single slot cards? Also, the temp of the core doesn't quite equate to how much its heating the case. If a side issue is inefficient heat sink transfer material, then the core itself is reading a higher temp because of lack of proper heat transfer to heat sink, and then into case.

Example, if the core is reading say 90 degrees, and a portion of that is due to inefficient heat transfer... and a second card has a core temp of around 55 degrees... Its not a simple comparison as to which is heating the other components more. If the core on the second card is larger, and has very efficient transfer material; it could be dumping more heat into the case then the first card.

Long story short; the core temp doesn't indicate how much heat is being dumped into the case. That being said... The card idles @ too high a frequency IMO.. and as such, that could be fixed, and that would lower heat generation, which would lessen heat being dumped into case.