Radeon 5970 Overclocking: The VRM Temperature Bottleneck

[LedHed]

for one...I do, I'd rather lose a few FPS when playing a game than crashing (my fun with my old x700Pro comes to mind)

I would rather have a card that can maintain it's advertised speeds without having to throttle down. I have never heard of people praising a feature that cuts performance drastically. It's not going to be a "few fps", it's going to be almost cut in half if it throttles to low power 3D speeds.