Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
like i said before, i think having a polished off product that is quiet, cool, looks nice is more important than speed...
so what, a is 10% faster than b... but its noisier, runs hot, has worse support in games, looks worse...
get what i mean?
Yes, we get it.

The excuses and spins are already starting, even before the card is officialy out and none really knows about it's real performance, temperatures and noise levels.

In regards of overclocking, while I can see that the potential is there with so much downclocked cores, I would be worried about cooling them with a non-stock cooling solution, be it air, water or ln2, due to the close proximity of power supply plugs and the second GPU core.