Quote Originally Posted by ***Deimos*** View Post
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.
also, in the case of your 6600gt, it was getting hot, but it wasn't really heating up the environment too much because there wasn't much energy being effectively outputted.

in the case of a 480, it will be able to heat up a room pretty well cause it's certainly not getting hot just because of an incompetent cooler.