Quote Originally Posted by bamtan2 View Post
you are wrong too. the primary constraint here is heat and power. my how quickly people forget what fermi is. its a pig.

your problem is you think the power circuitry is limited. it's not. gtx 590 is the most power consuming pci card ever sold, even BEFORE you overclock it and make it explode.
No mate your wrong, the 590 cores run plenty cool in games so there is room to up the clocks/volts considerably before you begin to hit a thermal wall.

As for power, well there isn't really a wall as long as you can dissipate the heat. I remember when people used to crow about 300w being the limit...

If the power circuitry within the 590 was more robust, people would be running their 590's well past 580 clocks, and be raving about 'having the fasted card in the world', sure it would probably run loud, but it could do it with ease, if Nvidia didn't skimp on parts...