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Originally posted by ElementalDragon
Actually, i think the fan idea is pretty good. if you think about it, why would you want a small fan on a card that is that fast if it doesn't cool the card down as much as possible? Look at older CPU's, they only really need a very small heatsink and a fan. now we have processors even from manufacturer's that have like a 2 inch deep heatsink and a somewhat large fan. even video cards are like that. you look at on-board video or VERY, VERY old 4 or 8 MB video cards that have absolutely no fan (unless you put a fan in your case to cool the whole thing down all together). now, 32 mb cards have fan's and they don't ALWAYS run too great depending on the manufacturer. All i'm really trying to say is that Why have that nice of a card, put too little cooling on it, ship it, then someone uses it and it fries cause of gettin too warm?
you miss the point my friend
the ORIGINAL specs for the card were for it to run @ 400-MAXIMUM 450mhz... if you note that the non-ultra 5800 runs @ 400 and uses a basic heatsink you will see the point...
the 5800 ultra is OVERCLOCKED... its that simple... heck if I want to overclock my 9700pro and stick that big mofo on it I could easily scale up and beyond 400/400 mem and core... not a problem...@ those speeds the gf FX would be a very distant second in most games and the fillrates would be extremely close...
now to the question of the card... it is running a fan that is louder than deltas... you know how loud those things are?
scaling to 70 DB ? do you realise exactly HOW loud that is?
beyond that the device uses per nvidia 2 slots... agp and 1 pci... but in reality you would be hardpressed to squeeze anything into the 2nd pci slot as well... take a look @ the pics of it sitting inside a computer... since the rear of the card is being cooled passively... there is heat generated and there is a LOT of it generated...
there is not one intel or amd cooler out there that does this... and why can ati use a much smaller heatsink on its card without using a monster cooler like that? coz of better design and less reliance on the possibility that low-k dielectrics would be mature enough to employ in this new video card..
ati apparently had a much better understanding of how mature the processes were than nvidia and are currently able to reap technical benefits because of that...
the card and its cooler are a little off if you ask me... the REAL gf FX would not have been able to compete with the 9700pro... so they oc it... call it the ultra... slap a massive cooler on it and boom... there you go