Quote Originally Posted by Sly Fox View Post
I can kind of see where ATI is coming from. 99% of people won't use their 5970 for anything that should stress it to "dangerous" levels.

By that I more specifically mean most people don't overclock nor run benchmarks on a regular basis.

It's still stupid that they won't shape up though. I can't imagine it would add THAT much extra cost to get those VRM's cooled down.

At this point I'm just gonna wait for Fermi. If Fermi sucks, watercool a 5970. I have a feeling lots of others are thinking the same way.
People who buy the 5970 are obviously enthusiast consumers and most enthusiast are going to OC this card. Now while I agree not everyone is going to run OCCT/Furmark repeatedly, these temp problems will show up in highly stressful games (Crysis/Dirt 2/GRID/etc)