New rumor about ATI Southern Islands

[saaya]

It is ES! there is measurement points etc in board.

so? why would you design an es board that probably has a lot of noise on the video output signals?

then again, if it works fine... having the pwm on the left makes sense if you use an exhaust heatsink... as the pwm can take higher temps than the gpu... if its in front of the gpu, airflow wise, the gpu ends up with hotter air, so the pwm is cooled better but the gpu isnt...

[Mechanical Man]

so? why would you design an es board that probably has a lot of noise on the video output signals?

then again, if it works fine... having the pwm on the left makes sense if you use an exhaust heatsink... as the pwm can take higher temps than the gpu... if its in front of the gpu, airflow wise, the gpu ends up with hotter air, so the pwm is cooled better but the gpu isnt...

To confirm if the noise is real or not. Theory takes you only that far...