The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[Chickenfeed]

If what we are ultimately looking at how much heat is given off, regardless of the reasons, then why does nobody have a problem with the HD4000 cards?

And if we just want to see how how it actually gets for longevity sake, then yes it does make a difference on the HD5000 cards as to whether or not the backplate is on.

I wasn't arguing potential longevity, just that the backplate won't do much for general pcb temps. It is there strictly for the memory as it is double sided unlike the 480/470 ( which has all its memory on the gpu side )