Caporegime
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He's right though. This 390x is more power hungry. It's going to be a hotter card spared the improved cooling. At least the 8800GT was faster and priced underneath the GTX at the same time of its reign. Making it seem like a damn good card. It was also a single slot cooler.
Compared to this kettle of fish..more than a year later, a ton of cards under the competitions belt and it's exactly the same card! LOL.
All rebrands are uninteresting, some are just a lot more senseless than others
The 8800GT and 8800GTS 512MB cards were rebranded against better AMD cards like the HD4830,HD4850,HD5770 and so on.
Also,hotness argument is just getting boring - the 9000 series Nvidia cards were rated for well over 100C. My mates single slot 9800GT could run very hot and it was in a SFF PC,so it was running well into the 90s for YEARS.
HD4870 cards ran hot and still were fine. Had mates with hot running GTX470 cards which lasted for years. The Titan X runs quite hot. Some of the pre-overclocked GTX970 cards could run hot. I have used SFF PCs since 2005 - all my cards have run hotter than average and have been fine for years.
As long as the card does not throttle and the capacitors are good quality solid jobbies,the cards will last for years.
Nobody is ditching their Haswell CPUs since they run hot. Most owners of Haswell CPUs in the world are using stock coolers,meaning they are run into the 80s and 90s quite easily if stressed.
Heat production is another thing - but people seem to be interchangeably using waste heat production and hotness when they are NOT the same things.
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