Nice asus 5900 ultra review

[Corporate Thug]

review

 

[Schadenfroh]

/zips of flamesuit and sits back to watch

 

[Corporate Thug]

why would there be a flame war over a review?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: shady06
why would there be a flame war over a review?

because every fx5900 review seems to turn into an ATI-vs-nvidia flamewar. Even nVidia owners like me join in on the nV bashing over the image-quality hacks and cheats they've rammed down consumers' throats to benchmark better.

Rant! foam! grumble! :|

 

[stardust]

mebe when someone argues that most of the game reviews in that VGA review were in favor of the ATi and not the nVidia card LOL. i have no clue, but thnks for the link. Its nice to hear from the UK once in a while. Wonder if i can get my 3.3NS Saphire 9800np up to speed..

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: stardust
mebe when someone argues that most of the game reviews in that VGA review were in favor of the ATi and not the nVidia card LOL. i have no clue, but thnks for the link. Its nice to hear from the UK once in a while. Wonder if i can get my 3.3NS Saphire 9800np up to speed..

good too see that people enjoy reading reviews for the sake of informing themselves

 

[codehack2]

Originally posted by: shady06
review

From reading the description of the heatsink on the card and from my past experience, my opinion is that the heatsink is a flawed design... I had a prolink 5900 256mb that had a similar one piece upper and one piece lower copper heatsink that covered both the GPU and memory. The problem with this design is that after prolonged use (i.e a couple hours of hard core gaming) the heatsink becomes saturated, the card overheats and ultimately becomes unstable at stock speeds. I tried 2 different cards with the same results. I've since switched to an EVGA 5900 Ultra with the refrence NV heatsink and it has no problems, as the memory and chip assemblies are sperate. As a matter of fact, It's rock solid at 565 core and 975 mem.

CH2

 

[stardust]

Originally posted by: codehack2

Originally posted by: shady06
review

From reading the description of the heatsink on the card and from my past experience, my opinion is that the heatsink is a flawed design... I had a prolink 5900 256mb that had a similar one piece upper and one piece lower copper heatsink that covered both the GPU and memory. The problem with this design is that after prolonged use (i.e a couple hours of hard core gaming) the heatsink becomes saturated, the card overheats and ultimately becomes unstable at stock speeds. I tried 2 different cards with the same results. I've since switched to an EVGA 5900 Ultra with the refrence NV heatsink and it has no problems, as the memory and chip assemblies are sperate. As a matter of fact, It's rock solid at 565 core and 975 mem.

CH2

i have to agree, my ES of the 5600U also had a rear heatsink that covered the back of the GPU and i noticed after hours of gaming that the core temp on the monitor increased 10-20 degrees! even when i was at an idle state. (68-88 degrees) but i think MSI does a perfect job in handling this by actually putting another fan to the bottom of the PCB. VERY SMART!

 

[codehack2]

Originally posted by: stardust

Originally posted by: codehack2

Originally posted by: shady06
review

From reading the description of the heatsink on the card and from my past experience, my opinion is that the heatsink is a flawed design... I had a prolink 5900 256mb that had a similar one piece upper and one piece lower copper heatsink that covered both the GPU and memory. The problem with this design is that after prolonged use (i.e a couple hours of hard core gaming) the heatsink becomes saturated, the card overheats and ultimately becomes unstable at stock speeds. I tried 2 different cards with the same results. I've since switched to an EVGA 5900 Ultra with the refrence NV heatsink and it has no problems, as the memory and chip assemblies are sperate. As a matter of fact, It's rock solid at 565 core and 975 mem.

CH2

i have to agree, my ES of the 5600U also had a rear heatsink that covered the back of the GPU and i noticed after hours of gaming that the core temp on the monitor increased 10-20 degrees! even when i was at an idle state. (68-88 degrees) but i think MSI does a perfect job in handling this by actually putting another fan to the bottom of the PCB. VERY SMART!

My problem is more with the 1 piece top... the combined heat from the memory and core are going to saturate the top heatsink. The NV 256mb Ultra refrence design is actually a 3 piece part: Core Top; Mem Top; Mem Back. Which for the most part isolates the heat generated from the core and mem and keep them from adversely affecting each other.

CH2