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AMD's vertical blade fan design is awful, they should come up with something new 
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***THE NEW KING - GTX 590 IS HERE!***
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Soldato
I agree, but I don't think the current problems with the 590 are to do with heat though???
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well the asus cards have dissapeared off of the site (sold out maybe? 
) and the msi cards have had a price drop
(sold out maybe? ) and the msi cards have had a price drop
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Em...I think the problem was not with the cores themselves, but it was the board (or PCB) that got fried due unable to handle the extra amount of watts going through them.
Also you logic of "clock higher" is seriously faulted. 6990 going from 800MHz to 880MHz is just 10% overclock, where as the GTX590 going from 607MHz to 772MHz is 27% overclock. Going by your logic that if 27% overclock is a fairly mild, then I suppose every 6990 should easily hit 1016MHz (800MHz+27%) then?
And no I ain't denying the GTX590 definitely is having issue as a card (not talking about the cores), but the short-coming of the GTX590 doesn't make the short-coming of the 6990 with the rubbish cooler go away. Fact is Nvidia might have messed up on the PCB design, and AMD has messed up on cutting corner on the cooler (seriously, that cooler...or I should say the fan choice is a joke for a £500+ graphic card.
As I said before, until Nvidia (or the manufacturer) sort out the problem that exist, or manufacturers smack a quiest cooler onto the 6990, neither of the dual-GPUs card are worth considering. It should be no-brainier that anyone with Crossfire/SLI capable board to go Crossfire 6950/6970 or SLI GTX570/GTX580 instead.
Soldato
Indeed the problem is not heat ATM.
Soldato
I think it usually still shows the card when it's sold out, it just says 0 stock, so maybe your right.
If you look around, opinion seems very divided on the noise of the card, guru 3d didn't seem to have many complaints, hardocp said the card had an air rushing sound but it wasn't annoying. Anandtech somehow managed to get the card upto 77db.
@Gibbo, why is it that Nvidia always get a separate webpage for each gfx card on OCUK's website but ATI are always grouped by series? Wouldnt it make sense to have:
ATI 6990
ATI 6970
ATI 6950
etc.
like you have:
Nvidia 590
Nvidia 580
Nvidia 570
etc.
?
ATI 6990
ATI 6970
ATI 6950
etc.
like you have:
Nvidia 590
Nvidia 580
Nvidia 570
etc.
?
HD 6990 is still the king..
The GTX 590 is NOT the "World's Fastest Single Card Solution" as stated on our page 1 slides; the Radeon HD 6990 is very much retaining that title. Hail to the King, baby!
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/03/24/asus_geforce_gtx_590_video_card_review/9
Soldato
I C wut u did there
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Wise decision. Unless you are experiencing problem with your existing 5970, GPUs this gen simply hasn't move forward enough to really justify an upgrade from the last (taking into account of cost vs speed increase). Probably should hope for the best for the 28nm GPU cards that are coming at the end of the year.
I'm hoping for those cards to kick ass. Will then wait until some super value mid-range card overclockable to high end performance with a good cooler strapped on comes on a "deal of the century" and get myself a couple of them.
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If you look around, opinion seems very divided on the noise of the card, guru 3d didn't seem to have many complaints, hardocp said the card had an air rushing sound but it wasn't annoying. Anandtech somehow managed to get the card upto 77db.
Even worse, Anandtech simply don't understand powertune, quote the power incorrectly then add 20% to the incorrect number, because they are tards.
The 70+dba is in furmark only, their gaming numbers are much better but,
With the 6990 review the only two noise levels they give are idle and furmark, for Nvidia they give idle, furmark and Crysis, where its louder than the 590gtx, but no where near as loud as in Furmark. They really are getting rubbish lately, as are bit-tech, quality of review sites is in the tube lately. [h] at least attempt to get across useful info but still screw up massively on occasion.
Anandtech need to either test by removing the furmark power limiter on Fermi cards, or by not enabling +20% powertune on AMD cards, its ridiculous to compare them where ones at its best and one at its worst.
Most other sites show a difference in noise but not particularly big between them. Though the trouble is I'd imagine that 60dba + on a irritating little blower fan is FAR more irritating than 60+dba on a 90mm "normal" fan, with the AMD fan being higher pitched and whiny... vs a lower pitch "normal" fan noise. Neither sounds particularly appealing though.
£30 cheaper than that on this very site.
I do have to agree, a good review site is getting harder to find, i tend to try Reading a few to get an overall picture.
On the noise front again with blower versus normal (coaxial i think)fan even at the same dba limit the blowers are more irritating sound wise.
I think with the next series of cards we might see this addressed from both camps, seeing as Nvidia have shown you can keep these ultra powerful/hot cards at least reasonable noise wise. well we can live in hope anyway
for me though the best thing about the 590 is the fact that it isn't huge, packing two gpu's into such a small package is definitely a step in the right direction, assuming that that isn't the reason for some of them going pop...
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I saw them as low as £570 elsewhere...