Huh.
That's a lot. That means they could have overclocked the chip a little bit, lashed on the decent compound and been back at the same heat with a faster card.
I suppose... they must know about it. They must have tested it, but just dont think that the cost reward ratio is high enough. There is fierce competition on those things though.
Hard to know really what they are up to.
I opened up a new machine the other day, it was running a bit hot but no big deal. I lashed in another hard drive that I had laying about the lab, and while I was in there, noticed that the main cpu cooler fan, which was a nice snazzy expensive one was completely covered up with a massive ribbon cable, so the fan was blowing air nowhere. I moved the ribbon three inches and zip tied it in place, and the cpu instantly cooled off a few degrees, and is not constantly spinning any more.
That was just some screw up on the assembly line though. Your one is cheaping out at a board room I would guess.
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