Originally Posted by
Sushi Warrior
It runs at 95C but only runs at ~70% fan speed, it is not maxed out.
And the HD4850 was also very hot, 100C+ was not unusual at all. This is designed to run at 100C.
Also the core is at 100C, it's not like the backplate is running at 100C.....
My 6600GT also ran at 100C. But it was only like 50W. And the fan was stuck with dust. The 4850, runs near 100C on purpose to keep the fan speed as low as possible. You can tradeoff much lower temps at higher fan speed for a bit of rusling noise.
There is a HUGE difference.
On the GTX480 you cannot tradeoff fanspeed for lower temps. Fan is already at 70%+!!
If you dial it down to 30% the thing will have a meltdown = FIAL.
If you crank it up to 100%, you *might* get down to 80C - the highest I've reached when overclocking GTS250 = FAIL. 
Power normalized to 5850=max (+/-20):
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card max heaven furmark Crysis comments
5970 300 264 315 258 looks pretty accurate
GTX295 289 342 287 xbitlabs OCCT:GPU is smoking!
GTX480 250 321 329 301 somebody is fibbing
5870 189 192 225 199 ~200 in games vs 189 advertised
5850 158 158 158 158 ---------------------
heaven=toms, furmark=anand, crysis=anand
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