GPU Question: Attn. -nVidia 570- & -ATi HD 6970- owners

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Originally Posted by Fear

I only use WD (Western Digital) or Samsumg, never had a single issue with them. I wont need to touch the paste anytime soon dont worry, my CPU never goes past 45c lol but FFXIV turns the damn room into a oven with the graphics card, I could lower the temps but I like my overclock and 60-65c is well within its limits, I think the 6950HD can do 100-105C before it throttles

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I know what you mean, I have to have the fan on all day and night from the temperature my room hits when the T.V and computer have been on for a few hours. Think my CPU sits around the 50 degrees mark at all times, the graphics card though is around 40 degrees until I put FFXIV on, then it rockets up to around 60-70 degrees.

Still, it's better than the 80-90 degrees my Geforce 9500GT was doing, or the 120 degrees it'd shut off at when the fan wasn't working XD

I'm lucky I managed to get hold of the ASUS version of my card with the DirectCU2 cooler, keeps it running cool. A reference model would of probably burnt out by now.

I remember when I tried to run FFXIV on my laptop and the GPU chip melted... (not lying) it hit 85c or so then stopped working had to replace the motherboard...lesson learned lol.

I'm amazed my CPU keeps below 50C during FFXIV with a stock cooler yet my graphics card is at 65-70c with 2 massive fans spinning at 4200RMP on it and 2 12cm intake fans blowing 67cfm air onto it its insane how much this heats up a card.

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Originally Posted by Fear

I'm lucky I managed to get hold of the ASUS version of my card with the DirectCU2 cooler, keeps it running cool. A reference model would of probably burnt out by now.

I remember when I tried to run FFXIV on my laptop and the GPU chip melted... (not lying) it hit 85c or so then stopped working had to replace the motherboard...lesson learned lol.

I'm amazed my CPU keeps below 50C during FFXIV with a stock cooler yet my graphics card is at 65-70c with 2 massive fans spinning at 4200RMP on it and 2 12cm intake fans blowing 67cfm air onto it its insane how much this heats up a card.

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Oddly enough my Geforce 210 only has a heat-sink, no fan at all but it keeps cool. It is an eeeeeenormous heat-sink though, and the cards pretty heavy compared to others.

I remember when the Incarna patch came out on EVE and someone appeared in the forum about 10 minutes later. turned out the huge memory leak Incarna had when it came out caused his computer to quite literally explode. He had to go build a new one, and he was trying to get CCP to pay for it, and peeps were like, "Dude, if you computer exploded, there was something VERY wrong with your computer, nothing to do with CCP or their game at all."

I also remember getting a burn on my leg after playing WoW on my friends laptop for about 12 hours straight (My parents were on holiday and I was quite drunk, so repeatedly pressing the same number keys for 12 hours whilst doing quests was about as far as my mentality could go at the time :p).

Computers do crazy stuff sometimes...

My card is 11.5" long it barely fits into my case and its longer than the motherboard, hell it rests ontop of the SATA connecters so I gotta remove it if i wanna plug in more SATA drives lol.

My laptop always used to be good and cool but I guess leaving FFXIV running for 1-hour on a bed didnt do it much good...

Worst PC thing i've heard of is some guy sprayed his Graphics card with compressed air then turned his PC on and loaded up a game.. a big fireball flew out of it and killed the enitre thing guy went crazy, if you wanna try it yourself spray some compressed air over a fire and watch it explode that stuff can be dangerous.

I want the new ATI CCC drivers to be released already, might help with performance and lower my temps lol

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Originally Posted by Fear

My card is 11.5" long it barely fits into my case and its longer than the motherboard, hell it rests ontop of the SATA connecters so I gotta remove it if i wanna plug in more SATA drives lol.

My laptop always used to be good and cool but I guess leaving FFXIV running for 1-hour on a bed didnt do it much good...

Worst PC thing i've heard of is some guy sprayed his Graphics card with compressed air then turned his PC on and loaded up a game.. a big fireball flew out of it and killed the enitre thing guy went crazy, if you wanna try it yourself spray some compressed air over a fire and watch it explode that stuff can be dangerous.

I want the new ATI CCC drivers to be released already, might help with performance and lower my temps lol

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There was a guy I used to know who had one of those liquid nitrogen cooling units on his computer, the ones with all the pipes going around it. One of the pipes sprung a leak one day and his entire computer turned to ice.

It was like a low-tech T-1000 XD

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Originally Posted by Konachibi

There was a guy I used to know who had one of those liquid nitrogen cooling units on his computer, the ones with all the pipes going around it. One of the pipes sprung a leak one day and his entire computer turned to ice.

It was like a low-tech T-1000 XD

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While I can't like what happened to the computer, the T-1000 reference caught me off guard.

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Originally Posted by Fiosha_Maureiba

While I can't like what happened to the computer, the T-1000 reference caught me off guard.

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I'm well versed in many video game and movie references, most of which are completely useless in real-life situations ;)

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Originally Posted by Hikozaemon

i was being a smartass since you where going out of your way to be one. I'm giving the OP my opinion and telling him not to waste money when he can get better for less; unless he wants to pay more and get less thats his decision. And AMD has no problem competing. They dont worry about minuscule gains and charging there customers 100's of dollars for minute and sometimes unnoticable differences in technology; they offer a very good product for a fair price. Next you'll tell me alienware PCs/laptops arent 4000% overpriced and are the best thing next to sliced bread.

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I wasn't, but you certainly are.

what's cost-effective depends entirely on what the intended usage is, and without knowing the whole picture, you can't make anything more than vague suggestions that aren't all that helpful to anyone.

and no, outside of a few exceptions, you don't pay more for less, you pay more for more, you just have diminished return on the extra money spent, unless you're utterly incompetent in choosing your components.

And please, it's hardly a secret that AMD has not been able to compete in the upper segment since Intel pushed out Conroe, and it has only gotten worse for AMD as time went on, which is why AMD has been concentrating their efforts in the oem/budget segments until Bulldozer is ready for debut.

Not saying the Phenoms are bad, they can certainly hold their own against comparable Intel offerings in the price range, it's just that the range doesn't go very high. Nor is the differences "minute". This isn't a matter of opinion here, go check the benchmarks on any tech site, AMD simply has no answer to Sandybridge atm.

and no, alienware sucks balls, but thanks for the fail strawman attempt.

Doot doot doot, another thread down the pan,
doot doot doot, another thread down the pan,
and another one shouts
and another one trolls
another thread down the pan,
Hey! Y'know he'll argue,
another thread down the pan.

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Originally Posted by Esk

OC'd for Side+top Screens for EvE :p

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one internet cookie for you

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Originally Posted by Esk

I chose this set up due to it being the best on market build at the time for cost/power.

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this is how it should be, not based on blind brand loyalty.

btw, nice OC, almost pulled the trigger on sandybridge, but figure I might as well wait for Ivy and see if AMD can pull one out of the hat w/ the bulldozer.