Quote Originally Posted by Carfax View Post
Unless you're a semiconductor engineer, how could you possibly know that Fermi is power hungry due to "bad design?"

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are you one?
If you aint how would you even consider my answer to be appropiate as you wouldnt understand it?

Its called 460 since Nvidia went over the top with their first generation Fermi.
its bad design, simple as that.

amd on the other hand, well...their 3 last designs and implementations seems to be flawless. The jury still out for the 6000 series.