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Nvidia's Fermi Cards Said to Run Very Hot - Info.

Expected to turn things around for Nvidia in a big way, Fermi is supposed to vastly superior to the company's current line of 200-series cards.

Speaking to several case vendors at CES, we were told that while running one Fermi card alone or two single-GPU cards is fine, going any higher may introduce thermal issues.
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If it's so vastly superior, then average pc enthusiast joe wouldn't need more than sli? :confused:


And anybody that did need such power, would surely have quality case cooling, most likely watercooling :confused:

Maybe they're playing it down, it probably runs at about 150c at load :p
 
They should sell them with watercooling blocks instead of aircooling if they run that hot. No way could you overclock them on air...:rolleyes:



mathwat
 
Several hundred million more transistors than the 5870, higher clocked shader areas and it runs hotter thant the 5870, big surprise there......
 
Reading a post here a few days ago, and x Nvidia guy was saying they run at 55c.
Who knows whos telling the truth.
But looking at Nvidia history of cards i be thinking its going to be hot.
 
What l have heard is that it will be hotter than previous Nvidia cards. Not owning a Nvidia card for some time doesn't tell me anything of how how these new cards will run. Anyone with a 285GTX willing to shed some light as to how hot these things run?
 
I honestly can't see why a card thats only 40-50W more, spread over a 50% larger surface area would run "that" hot. AT the end of the day where they read the temp from can dramatically change the temp, which is a largely irrelevant number anyway.

If they read the temp next to a 650Mhz clocked rop, or a 1,7Ghz clocked shader will probably give you different numbers, but realistically, unless the cooler is horrible badly designed I can't see why it can't cope with the extra heat output with a 50% larger area, it "should" have a quite a bit lower power for any given surface area than a 58XX series chip and as we've seen with the 5970, a heatsink that can shift 225W is well, incredibly easy, the 5970 sink can cope with a 400W load.

Temp's shouldn't be the Fermi's problem in any way at all, price, yes, temp's, no.
 
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