Nvidia's Fermi Cards Said to Run Very Hot

[xaira]

at least now we know why nvidia will win the performance round, amd could have just as easily increased from 1600spus to 2000 spus and clocked them all at 1000mhz, but they didnt...

 

[danjf]

You have to think of this in the classic "cold war" sense. This month ATI is the king. Next month it'll be NVIDIA. Yes, NVIDIA has had some problems lately, but with a company who's put out some tremendous cards in the past, I think its just a matter of time before there's a hit. Maybe the hit will be with Fermi, maybe not. I guess it really is about cold war -- whoever has the best and "coolest" card wins

 

[JohnnyLucky]

I'll be glad when the product if finally released and competent technical reviews are available. Right now all we have are unsubstantiated rumors.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]knutjb[/nom]Gaming is just a hobby for Fermi's intended use. Nvidia is trying to sell GPU servers. Those who have the cash to buy large servers have a lot more cash than all of us gamers. AMD made a lot more money off Optys than Athalons.[/citation]

I'd wish they'de make server motherboards instead! For esx neither graphics or cpu power is an issue, but having enough ram and lan is. If they use the pcie lanes to compute stuff, they can't use them for networking, and if there's no memory to work with, what's the point anyway

 

[ckthecerealkiller]

[citation][nom]hunter315[/nom]Hotter than the hottest 5xxx card? Does that mean that is going to use the max 300W for a single chip? The 5970 is already rated at 294W how much hotter can it get?[/citation]
Remember the 5970 is a dual GPU card on a single board.