the cards can never reach 83 A in games ???
HA i say HAAAA
my Gainward 4870 reference already goes to 72A in crysis at 1600x1200 no aa no af catalyst driver defaults 9.5 after about 5 minutes
and it crashes after 30 mins -1 hour ...seems to be very random maybe it spikes to 83 A causing it to crash

don't use the riva osd ingame because you will get false data .let riva monitor your card in the background
now imagine i used a higher rezolution like 2500 ....it would crash wouldn't it ?
i say HAAA again