Have I said it should be kept 80% all the time? Honestly mate, you should have suggested the above thing in the very first post before labeling HD 6950 as a "relatively hot" card and scaring people away. (also in the other thread) Reference HD 6950 is 4-5~ degrees hotter than reference GTX 560 Ti on load. (Anandtech) Quite honestly, OCers don't give a damn.
btw, vamsi keeps his HD 4890 at 70% constant. Fan hasn't died till now.
Never knew i am so scary
Anyways i suggested that fact in the perfect time.
I never labeled 6950 as a hot card at stock but when you highly overclock the card. Reference 6950's should not be overclocked like crazy and that was my whole point. Temperatures play a vital role here more than other gpu's in its class because its
relatively warmer.
Again temps are variable and vary from game to game and benchmark to benchmark. Since you bought 560-ti to the picture- check
here.
In the above example, the difference between stock 6950 and 560-ti is
11c. Now i don't say its hot but relatively warm. I don't even say anandtech as wrong because in their testing bench, it didn't get that hot but did in guru 3d's load tests. So they vary.
Overclockers do give a d@mn to temperatures and always go for better cooling solutions before overclocking a chip to extreme levels. Applies to both cpu and gpu & i very well know that you know this fact.
My message or post wasn't meant to scare people away but aware them that highly overclocking an already warm reference card without setting proper fan profiles
may lead to instability or chip damage in the long run. I have written
"may" because its a possibility and not an established fact. People may or may not believe me.
For
serious overclocking, opting for reference cards (560-ti or 6950) is a bad choice. Here non-reference cards are the first choice because they are designed to handle heat. When nvidia or amd design a reference card , they design it to handle the stock clock efficiently. Similarly, when intel releases a chip, we can't overclock it highly with a stock cooler can we? Same rule applies here.
Increasing them northwards will need a reference cooler to keep temps at check and offer better stability.
That's why we see Twin frozr's, direct cu's, toxic's, soc's, amp's etc from various third party board board makers like asus, sapphire, msi ,gigabyte, zotac etc...etc.
....Can u plz give me the link...!
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