New interview with ATI's Eric Demers

Sir Eric is back! He's a big cheese over at ATI, and every so often he gives interviews on ATIs latest chips. They can get a bit technical, but still great reads.

over on Rage3D http://www.rage3d.com/interviews/atichats/undertheihs/


This was pretty interesting......

R3D: On to a rather burning issue: looking back, do you still think it was a good idea to setup the RV770 cooling solution as you did, with a focus on silence rather than thermal performance?

Eric: We went through a lot of feedback we received, as well as further investigating the topic, and it turns out that the majority of users are far more sensitive to the noise associated with the cooling solution, than they are to GPU temperatures, which led as to aim for the most silent possible operation. Considering that, for stock operation, the cooling solutions we have implemented are more than adequate in terms of thermal performance, as they keep the chips well within specifications- we rate the chips to work up to 105o C which is quite a bit higher than the temperatures you'll be normally seeing. Of course, if you're considering significant overclocking, you'll probably be better served by the alternate cooling solution that our AIB partners bring, as some of those are better suited to such a task than our reference design.


LOL @ "burning issue". But that should cool some of us down when seeing those operational temps.

an informative interview in parts, may as well bump this in case it sinks without a trace.

hmm, knocked off the first page, come on, this has to be more intesting than the 4870vs260 threads.