The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[Mungri]

The point is the GTX480 is not as loud in a case, and it benefits more from case airflow than a 5870.

Proof please?

http://www.legionhardware.com/articl...rrives,11.html

All that power makes for one seriously hot graphics card. Do not be fooled by the 97 degree load temperature. While this is the maximum temperature that we recorded, the fan was spinning so fast things started sliding across my desk towards the test system. The GeForce GTX 480 was truly deafening when running our full load test.

Letting the card sit at the Windows 7 desktop for 20 minutes after stress testing saw the temperature only drop to 65 degrees. When it came time to remove the GeForce GTX 480 from our test system I had to wear a pair of gloves to avoid any possible burns or dropping the extremely hot graphics card. The PCI Express power cables were amazingly soft from all the heat that had been thrown at them.

In short the GeForce GTX 480 is around 11% hotter than the Radeon HD 5870 under load and a whopping 71% or 27 degrees hotter at idle.

Even more when you compare the GTX 480 to a pair of 5770s which cost £240, run silent, cool and consume much less power.

The 5870 doesnt need case air flow to operate at much lower temperatures and noise. The spewing out of your mouth is far greater than the bananas coming from mine.