[citation][nom]cobra5000[/nom]I guess i don't know what a "pure" gaming system is if you spend over 1k on watercooled gpu's and then call it a "pc that plays games well"? My old AMD 965 @ 3.8 w/5870, "plays games well". This thing should poop shiny pixels and sparkly rainbows, (i'm not saying it doesn't), but this whole "pure gaming" terminology seems a bit pretentious.[/citation]OK then let me make this simple: If all you do is game you can get by with a small hard drive or SSD, and crappy CPU with a high O/C, a little memory at high data rate, and spend all your money on graphics. That used to be possible with parts like the Core i3-530 and Crucial's overclockable DDR3-1333 4GB kits.
If you want to do OTHER THINGS, you need a big drive. If you want to do other COMPLEX things, you might want more RAM. Etc etc etc.[citation][nom]youssef 2010[/nom]REAAALLLLLLLLLLY!!!!!!! You mean they didn't even bother to modify the default fan map for the cards to fix that issue. Oh well, I expect when they're targeting the enthusiast market, every one will change the fan map anyway. Still, they should have posted that on their website or mention it anywhere they find convenient instead of you buying some sweet LC GPUs only to spend hours trying to think about the reason for overheating. Smart guys.[/citation]It appears that's what happened, and it would explain why PNY isn't shipping them any more. Imagine the returns for memory errors. If PNY were to simply write it off as a fail rather than figure out that changing the fan map can fix it, well now that would be, as you would say...