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Superior ATI cooling.
Take a look at this photo of an ATI X800XT & Geforce 6800GT (first two on
the left): http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/sapphire_x800xt/2.jpg It shows why the reference ATI cooler is better than the reference NVidia cooler. The fan is much bigger on the ATI design allowing it to spin slower for the same amount of airflow as the NVidia design. The ATI design might even be acceptable for most quiet PC enthusiasts. |
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On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:17:51 +0000, tq96 wrote:
The fan is much bigger on the ATI design allowing it to spin slower for the same amount of airflow as the NVidia design. The ATI design might even be acceptable for most quiet PC enthusiasts. Maybe it needs to spin faster. -- .. |
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And anyone would give a **** because????????
"tq96" wrote in message ... Take a look at this photo of an ATI X800XT & Geforce 6800GT (first two on the left): http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/sapphire_x800xt/2.jpg It shows why the reference ATI cooler is better than the reference NVidia cooler. The fan is much bigger on the ATI design allowing it to spin slower for the same amount of airflow as the NVidia design. The ATI design might even be acceptable for most quiet PC enthusiasts. |
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Because we love the inner workings of computers.
"Pete D" wrote in message ... And anyone would give a **** because???????? "tq96" wrote in message ... Take a look at this photo of an ATI X800XT & Geforce 6800GT (first two on the left): http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/sapphire_x800xt/2.jpg It shows why the reference ATI cooler is better than the reference NVidia cooler. The fan is much bigger on the ATI design allowing it to spin slower for the same amount of airflow as the NVidia design. The ATI design might even be acceptable for most quiet PC enthusiasts. |
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No we don't!
"JTS" wrote in message ... Because we love the inner workings of computers. "Pete D" wrote in message ... And anyone would give a **** because???????? "tq96" wrote in message ... Take a look at this photo of an ATI X800XT & Geforce 6800GT (first two on the left): http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/sapphire_x800xt/2.jpg It shows why the reference ATI cooler is better than the reference NVidia cooler. The fan is much bigger on the ATI design allowing it to spin slower for the same amount of airflow as the NVidia design. The ATI design might even be acceptable for most quiet PC enthusiasts. |
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And anyone would give a **** because????????
Because NVidia's reference cooler blows donkey dick. The engineers should get off their asses and make a good design like ATI that isn't so ****ing loud. Otherwise consumers who don't like their computers to violate noise ordinances have to look at third party cooling systems that invalidate the card's warranty just to get a card that runs at a decent noise level. |
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Luckily mine is not like the reference and is ever so quiet.
"tq96" wrote in message ... And anyone would give a **** because???????? Because NVidia's reference cooler blows donkey dick. The engineers should get off their asses and make a good design like ATI that isn't so ****ing loud. Otherwise consumers who don't like their computers to violate noise ordinances have to look at third party cooling systems that invalidate the card's warranty just to get a card that runs at a decent noise level. |
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Because NVidia's reference cooler blows donkey dick. The engineers should
get off their asses and make a good design like ATI that isn't so ****ing loud. Otherwise consumers who don't like their computers to violate noise ordinances have to look at third party cooling systems that invalidate the card's warranty just to get a card that runs at a decent noise level. The NV Silencer line from Arctic Cooling is quite good, both in terms of noise level and performance... but yeah, it shouldn't be necessary in the first place. It blows my mind how NVIDIA managed to screw up the NV30's "FlowFX" so bad, when the Silencer is much the same design yet somehow is not audible in other ZIP codes, unlike NVIDIA's offering. Big-name card builders ought to use Silencers standard--I'd pay the extra few bucks for one. |
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"tq96" wrote in message ... Take a look at this photo of an ATI X800XT & Geforce 6800GT (first two on the left): Inferior poster intellect. |
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Keep in mind ATi actually sells its own cards, so the lion's share of
X800XTs use the stock cooler. On the nVidia side, it's easy enough to purchase a card from, say, LeadTek and not have this problem. Blame it on the board manufacturers for being lazy and using a stock design... It's possible to overclock the 6800GT significantly using the stock cooler. Not so with the X800XT... -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "tq96" wrote in message ... Take a look at this photo of an ATI X800XT & Geforce 6800GT (first two on the left): http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/sapphire_x800xt/2.jpg It shows why the reference ATI cooler is better than the reference NVidia cooler. The fan is much bigger on the ATI design allowing it to spin slower for the same amount of airflow as the NVidia design. The ATI design might even be acceptable for most quiet PC enthusiasts. |
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