HD 6990 Preview/Review

[Heinz68]

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=29315

62c idling with 400mhz sounds kinda high

I don't think GPU 400MHz Memory 1125MHz are the HD 6990 Idle clocks.
For example the HD 5970 idle clocks are GPU 157 MHz Memory 300MHz.

Not at all. You also see the fan at 29%. Not bad.
My HD5970 with reference cooler is idle´ing 59C out of case - fan at 27%
and 63C inside case - fan at 29%. So its pretty much the same as HD 5970 @ idle.

My 5970 is idling 46C with fan at 25%. Probably the CosmosS 200x230x30mm 900 rpm side panel intake fan makes the difference, I also have 3 more 120x120x25mm 1200 rpm intake fan instaled.

I don't think the HD 6990 even with improved reference cooler is going to run as cool.


EDIT
Anyway I probably will buy the HD 6990, just waiting for the reviews and price.

[Manicdan]

I don't think GPU 400MHz Memory 1125MHz are the HD 6990 Idle clocks.
For example the HD 5970 idle clocks are GPU 157 MHz Memory 300MHz.

cpu load says 0%, thus idling, sure it might have bumped up the clocks due to multi monitor output, but i still think 62 is excessively warm. maybe they just finished a benchmark and it cooling down though.