It idles at ~50 give or take, 100% load temp are around 92, but in the reviews where they had screens of precision like tool they show max fan cycle duty @ 55%, which is kinda low. I guess all they need to to is increase fan ramping delta for load temps to drop to 80ies.Originally Posted by Vinas
Even at 92 load temps it's proves nothing, if they say that chip can handle it, then it's fine, lots of people use some personal factless logic to determine what temps are safe and what not.
Everybody seems to forget how that 5970 have almost the same load temps at stock cooler and it runs just fine.
Then ATI have a neverending issues with PWN that are hitting ridiculously 100+ temps and while 5850/5870 are not that much affected, on 5970 it can cause throttling. Nvidia's PWN design never had this issues, probably cause their coolers are better designed to cool them.
All i'm saying that there no clear winner, they are pretty much a valid competitors at this point, given that Fermi has only early beta divers to work with at this point while ATI had 6 month work put in the drivers, picture might very well change in a couple of driver revisions for Fermi. I also have a feeling that heavy DX11 titles might run better on Fermi due to their architectural focus on tessellation among other things.
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