how cold is Radeon 8500??

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in every image i see, there is nothing but a tiny little sink on the GPU. Does this card not produce much heat? If so then i can see great overclocking potencial:D I already know that the ram runs cooler beacuse of ATi's advanced memory controller. but what about the core? It seams to be the thing to overclock on this card.

[Silversinksam]

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Think of Radeons as Intels and Nvidea GPU's As AMD's

As ATI has always made fairly cool running GPU's thats why most people dont use much more than a Blue Orb to cool the Radeons while us Nvidea users slip on Alpha Pal 15u's and the like. :mad:

[Zuck Gou :)]

It's funny how ATI and Intel make the same kind of chips -
Cooler and of better ''quality''

While Nvidia and AMD make Faster and hotter

But if you think about it, ATI and AMD are more alike, being the 'underdogs'

Man, that was a little off topic.

[Silversinksam]

My intention Wasn't to create an Ati vs Nvidea response and I definitly dont agree with the word quality in the dialogue regarding ATI. Thier driver support is something less than desirable. I was an ATI user for years and tried 3 different Radeon ddr 64 vivo's and the Fuzzy factor converted me to Nvidea where the fuzzy factor was no longer a factor no more due to drivers that actually worked ;)


I was only trying to discuss the cool running GPU's of the ATI products, cool does not equal quality the way I see things.

Maybe I'll try the 8500 but im not holding my breath anticipating that it will be any better regarding ATI's poor drivers.

[Violator]

From what I've seen, anything above about 285 (RAM, retail) requires some form of additional cooling otherwise it's artifact-city. Even with good cooling it appears that 295+ is a rarity.

[pestul]

R8500 is quite cool.

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they already have overclocked the memory on this board to 320MHzSDR without ram sinks:D