S1 on my 4870

[zod96]

Ok got the S1 installed and its running passively no fan right now. I put ramsinks on the memory and the tiny vrm's but I didn't put anything on the 2 big ic looking chips...

http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/08/08/09/9km.png

 

[sgrinavi]

That's impressive, what's the temp under a load?

 

[zod96]

Just got finished playing oblivion for about 2 hours and the load temp was 68

 

[Sylvanas]

Nice, full load passive is cooler than Idle stock in most cases . Early reports are that you can expect temps and power consumption to go down with the next Catalyst 8.8's aswell.

 

[idiotekniQues]

Originally posted by: Sylvanas
Early reports are that you can expect temps and power consumption to go down with the next Catalyst 8.8's aswell.

now that is good news to me!

 

[zod96]

The gpu load temp was 68, the vrm's were 100, but I think that's ok too. No artifacts were found when playing any games....