Nite Piper
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Posted - 2011.08.22 20:59:00 -
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Edited by: Nite Piper on 22/08/2011 21:10:55 Seems I also feel a need to comment on the ATI bashing here:
Comments like those (about anything) are very common and typical in hardware discussions. Because a lot of people just swears by something, because of personal bad experiences, or because of a phenomenon we can call fan-boyism. My advice is just to always get second opinion. Sometimes bashing is true, very true, like Intel graphics, VIA chip-sets back in the late 90'ies etc, but often bashing can be safely ignored.
The ATI brand is being gradually removed, to be replaced by AMD branding, since that's essentially what it is these days. There was a large reorganization of things after the purchase. The effects of this has been visible since the HD3nn0 generation, which was the first one designed under AMD leadership. As for drivers, my impression is the opposite of the bashers, that AMD/ATI have been generally better in later years. I also believe Microsoft have statistics that prove this as a fact. I can't comment on GPUs burning up since this has never happened to me. I still have all my graphics cards, nVidia and AMD/ATI, back to an old GF 3 Ti200 and they all still work as well as they ever did.
Finally, as for running hot: How hot the chips run is a function of the card's cooling. This is something that is up to the cards manufacturer, and the individual model of the card, and has basically nothing to do with the brand of the GPU itself. So what should be bashed is the manufacturer of the card, not the brand of GPU. The exact same goes for CPUs. Anyone who claim either Intel or AMD runs hotter, have no clue and should not be listened to. If the CPU runs hot, then it's a failure of the PC manufacturer who have provided inadequate cooling, not a failure of the CPU.
What is certain though, is that nVidia GPUs use more Watt and generate more heat than AMD. How hot the chip is running though, just depends on the cooling.
P.S. One thing that should be kept an eye on, in the context of overheating components, is dust buildup in the cooling fins of coolers, as well as faltering fans.
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