Thats the same I get on my 4870 so, yeah it is pretty high. Hmmm, that could be a way to make tea and play games at the same time
Exactly. For anything other than Folding, that's about as high as stock-cooled 4870 will go, and my fan is capped at 37%. So for a watercooled card, where I'm accustomed to seeing people post temps of sub-40C even for hugely overclocked cards in triple SLI or quadfire, it's ridiculous. Either the DD block was poorly made, or they mounted it wrong, or the 480 is an absolute hog.