Temperature: Whose card runs cooler, NVIDIA or ATI?

[busydude]

I don't think that's shrouded either, but look at this. The guy uses cereal box to make heat go to the back. It does reduce temperature by a little.

That does not make your situation any better. The problem is with your case and the lack of airflow.. no modding of the card will make it run a low temps, you have to change and make amends to your case.

 

[evolucion8]

I don't think that's shrouded either, but look at this. The guy uses cereal box to make heat go to the back. It does reduce temperature by a little.

Isn't that a breakfast edition card? :awe:

 

[Aristotelian]

And before you say the card is loud. A gtx480 is loud , a 4890 is loud, a gtx470 can be loud.

Just because a card is asmall amount louder then a silent card , does not make it loud.
The gtx460 EE is louder then the silent stock gtx460, but is in no way LOUD.

I'll try this again. There is nothing silent about the 460. I'm not here to debate what 'quiet' means, I'm here to note for everyone that this is empirically and obviously false. The stock 460 is not silent, rendering the attempt at comparing the EE's noise levels to a supposedly silent stock 460 useless. The 460 is not silent, so saying that the EE is marginally louder than the silent 460 and therefore the EE cannot possibly be considered 'loud' is a bad argument.

On a side note, my "Silent?" in my previous post is all I thought I needed to say on this topic. Given that not a single person has disagreed with my dismissal of the claim that the 460 is silent (including happy_medium himself) I take it that this (that the 460 is not silent) is not breaking news to anyone. Yet, I felt the need to point out that the silent claim with respect to the 460 is obviously false.

 

[badb0y]

And before you say the card is loud. A gtx480 is loud , a 4890 is loud, a gtx470 can be loud.

Just because a card is asmall amount louder then a silent card , does not make it loud.
The gtx460 EE is louder then the silent stock gtx460, but is in no way LOUD.

What? happy, have you ever used a GTX 460 SC EE? It was the loudest thing in my system... My case isn't even that quiet, I have a Scythe S-Flex running in there.

 

[jrodson69]

In which case, you have an airflow problem.

Or a passively cooled, silent card.

 

[digitaldurandal]

No, Anandtech did. They know better then me.

Anand did NOT say that they produce less heat. They only measured how hot the card is. Produced heat DOES matter as you can literally heat a room with some of these modern cards "blowing 100% of the air out of the back."

 

[digitaldurandal]

Nice price but no voltage control so utter waste of money

He wants low temperature and you say without voltage control it is a waste of money? Do you people even read the OP before you post?