Radeon 5970 Overclocking: The VRM Temperature Bottleneck

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^^if they have programs that are able to utilize every shader perfectly, ATI can just drop the clocks in half for that program using drivers, and still stomp the competition.

I don't see why everyone in this thread tries to make it a competition of NVIDIA vs ATI. Why can't we just talk about thermal issues on the power regulator chips?

Also no one has any proof that ATI's current throttle mode doesn't drop the clocks like NVIDIA to 0.8mhz across the board or even low Power 3D speeds would severely hurt performance.