Quote Originally Posted by Sherman Tank View Post
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...
Arg, no, the limit is how much power your VRM can put out before toasting itself, which is limited by board space. In this case the VRM is barely doing the job.