ATI HD5870 pics

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tedsteriscool said:

nojustno said:

tedsteriscool said:

Soleron said:

tedsteriscool said:
Meh. ATI cards always get too hot.

...a graph...

The last card on that list is enough to sway me away from ATI. I don't need to boil water with my GPU, thanks.

Do you even know what crossfire is? multiple cards. A single card is a lot cooler as you can see. And why do you care so much about heat? ATi cards work fine until 125 degrees, you'd have to try REAL hard to get such a temp.

I know what crossfire is Same thing as SLi.

I care about heat because when gaming, I don't want my bedroom to heat up to intolerable levels within an hour. My 8800GT maxes out at 80C and still makes my bedroom waaaay too hot. 125 degrees is insane, and with that amount of heat (if ever reached), other components would undoubtedly suffer.

You do realise that temperature != heat output? Its heat output that will heat your room, not just the temperature of the die. A die pumping out 200W can be quite cool if you throw a massive heatsink on it, and vice versa. Pretty much all the current nVidia cards except the latest 40nm ones require more power than their equivalent ATI counterpart. As for reliability due to temps, given the fiasco nVidia has had with failing cards, I'd rather have ATI's temps (as I do, HD4850 here) than nVidia unreliability.