Originally posted by: yacoub
Originally posted by: Scholzpdx
Originally posted by: yacoub
And no doubt an 80db fan and 90C temp. 🙁
I'm so tired of the loud, hot GPUs ATI's released the last several generations, particularly given their smaller die sizes. I'd hate to have to declock it to get it to run at what I feel is an acceptable temperature. Oh well. Whoever makes a quieter, more effective hsf to attach to ATI cards should make a fortune.
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You don't realize this uses a 40nm manufacturing process. This will certainly play a role in keeping everything cool.
Why the fuck are you complaining
Because ever since ATI started die-shrinking (80-whatever nm, 65nm, etc) they've used it to make their cards run hotter and louder than previous generations and that annoys me. This started with the X1xxx series and continued for several generations, possibly through to the present though i've stopped paying as much attention. I just see the temps they put out and the continued focus on high clockspeeds, and assume they haven't changed their gameplan.
Instead of taking advantage of the die shrinks to produce cooler, quieter cards, they've gone the opposite direction. Instead of creating cards with better hardware configuration (wider buses, more processing units, etc, which requires more investment but provides a lower-clocked but just as powerful result in performance), they chose to go the cheap route and ramp the clockspeeds up into the stratosphere as a way to compensate. That decision was obnoxious, especially since NVidia in some ways has started to ape it, though still not to the extent that ATI had done so.
When we first heard about the X1xxx series and the smaller manufacturing process they would use, many of us got excited, expecting them to be cooler-running, quieter GPUs that would work great in smaller form-factor cases, or even just run quieter in a regular mid-tower case. Instead we got that famous F16-jet-hairdryer blower slapped onto a card that was running so hot it was a champion of instability and sometimes cooked itself in as little as six months in people's rigs. That was such a disappointment, it stuck in my mind ever since - especially since they kept going in that direction of high-clocked, hot, loud cards for at least a couple generations thereafter, and possibly through to today.
Regardless, in my original post in this thread, I was lamenting the fact that their new card will probably be hot and loud too, because of the reported specs which show it has a narrow bus and similar path of architecture as their previous generations that require a high clockspeed to compensate, and that in turn means hot and loud.
And for the record, since someone brought the 8800GT up, my 8800GT was in the 60s Celsius on the stock cooler and when I swapped in the quieter Thermaltake hsf it's running now, it's in the 40s-50s Celsius. So even though NVidia did follow suit with some of their cards, the 8800GT was not one of them for me. I do remember how the initial batch did have an issue with the fan controller where it didn't work properly, but that was a bug, and it wasn't supposed to run at 80+ Celsius.
