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Originally Posted by Joe
And really who cares. like people buy these pre-done water cooled setups cause they NEED them on their cards... sorry but I know enough people with air cooled GT's that run just fine. So its hardly about whats needed, and since facts dont pertain to the "need more bling" or what ever it is, getting in a huff about which is hotter or not from an absolute standpoint is ... pointless  |
Perhaps you missed the point of this product. The card is a GF6800U in stock form. True, it doesn't need water-cooling, but the card is advertised to run at 450MHz core clock, or at the now infamous "Ultra Extreme" core speeds, and this is why the water-cooling is on it.
It's quite odd that a few months ago Gainward and BFG were reported to be apparantly both on the preferred supplier short-list for manufacturer's who would be able to provide 450MHz "Ultra Extreme" speeds, and there were reports from these companies that they could not even reliably do this on air-cooling even with bin-split GPU parts from nVidia.
A short while after the X800XT got reviewed the whole story changed and nVidia denied that such "Ultra Extreme" products were ever on the cards, yet here we are - a few months later, with the original suspects offering exactly what was slated to be offered.
My comment about "needing" water-cooling was an indirect reference to the 450MHz "Ultra Extreme" core speeds. Yes - I know that there are people achieving this with air-cooling, but it's not a guarantee.
Joe - could you perhaps try to be a little less defensive about it? No one was saying that nVidia needed water-cooling to run their cards at stock, but it is apparant that they need it to run their cards reliably at core speeds that were once slated to be a possible product, was cancelled, yet here it is now in an "unofficial" and water-cooled capacity.