Can someone explain to me what is this meme about nvidia videocards being too hot and burning down the house?
Fermi.
These days it's AMD causing fires.
>>53826519
old meme. happened once ages ago but we can't let it go.
>>53826519
Fermi cards.
The AMD cards are not actually housefire, they are similar to old Kepler cards. The "new" Radeons are like a GK110 with 1200 Mhz sold as a 980, the Furys are 4000 shader GK110 with HBM1.
I heard they improved a little on chip yield but thats all, no new chips.
>>53826519
Gtx 980s exploding
>>53826519
Old Fermi series cards (read: GTX480) had low yields, dissapointing performance and ran incredibly hot. 100C was considered acceptable operating temperatures.
>>53827873
>The AMD cards are not actually housefire, they are similar to old Kepler cards
0/10
>>53828528
this, the fucking things draw hundreds upon hundreds of watts
just hope your PSU doesn't explode if you're running one overclocked
