Quote Originally Posted by LedHed View Post
most video card owners use stock cooling, it's a luxury most can't afford. I saw my 8800 GTS 512 reach speeds so high with a volt-mod that I won a G92 OCing competition and won my TPower i45 on stock cooling at first. I also OC my 295 and the temps are very reasonable with custom fan profiles in RivaTuner.
What exactly is your point? What do you think long periods of furmark would have done to my card on the stock cooler? Again, if you can afford a $600+ card you can afford better cooling. So this card has a temp bottleneck? So does yours. It's max clocks (hell lets say stock clocks) are still a better bang for your buck than a GTX295 with lets say your max clocks. Anyone who has seen my post history knows that I'm no ATI fanboy, not by a long shot, but stop comparing your 295 to a 5970. Just stop.