how did we get from this
To this
To this.
>>47160373
fuck you
to this
>>47160373
Frogs are superior to anything AMD can make.
>>47160373
Kek'd so hard
>>47160379
We started taking air-cooling seriously maybe.
>>47160373
Thread status: saved
>>47160357
>Comparing firepro to ricers earl gray
>>47160357
That's a card designed for 1U servers and packing as many cards as you can in a workstation
>>47160380
That's a gaming graphics card.
>>47160426
So, are there 8-card workstations, then? Never seen one myself.
>Cram on orders of magnitude more transistors on the same silicon area
>Run said chips at higher clock rates
>Surprised cooling is now more demanding
Really? Is that that hard to comprehend?
I know manufacturing techniques have improved so each individual transistor takes less power, but it hasn't outstripped the amounts of transistors they shove onto the chips.
Because Steve Jobs isn't around to make them thinner any more.
>>47160452
he probably meant render farms
>>47160373
fucking k-e-k
One of these it a card that has not much performance but supports many monitors. The other are riced gaming cards.
>>47160488
>firepro
>not much performance
they usually use the same gpus as gayman cards you retard
just because something doesn't perform well at gaymez doesn't mean they don't have performance
same reason why cpus these days run hotter than before even though they use less heat.
more transistors means more heat. more heat means better cooling.
only way we can go back to single slot coolers again is if we decided to take a break from performance and skip a generation or two. that way current performance is done on more efficient cores and designs.
this is why you can get $80, single slot cards with a credit card sized cooler attached to them that draw only 60watts that have the performance of a 8800ultra from 2007.
so that way in two years from now we can get the performance of a 980x for example in a single slot configuration that only draws 70watts.
but gamers wont allow that. they want their performance nao and because of that we get stuck with cards that can up two - three slots with massive heatsinks and two - four fans slapped to it or needing a custom water cooling unit attached to it.
>>47160621
but there's no point 'upgrading' to hardware that has zero performance increases. people usually upgrade hardware specifically when their old hardware doesn't have enough performance
Kek harder.
>>47160373
>>47160621
>cpus these days run hotter than before even though they use less heat
wut?
>>47160373
thanks for the lol
>>47160621
>same reason why cpus these days run hotter than before even though they use less heat.
>more transistors means more heat. more heat means better cooling.
was this written about a Pentium D
>>47160357
remember when they didn't even have heatsinks...
>>47160373
AHAHAH
Single slot cards don't provide enough cooling. The last single slot GPU I've ever seen was the EVGA 8800GT and that shit got so hot you could fry an omelet on it.
>>47160373
You win.
>>47161203
they should just ship high end cards with a watercooling loop included. You can buy CLC for cpus for €30 these days.
TIL processors use heat
>>47161128
I remember when your run of the mill PC could run the latest and greatest games. I blame Valve and HL2.
>>47161225
Air cooling > any clc
>>47160373
>>47160526
They have very different drivers optimized for OpenGL and 3D rendering. That's where the price comes from.
>snsv cards
>ever
>>47160373
nice one anon
>>47160357
Graphics cards are created nude.
People proceeded to eat the fruit from the Tree of Gaymen.
They saw their graphics cards were nude, and covered them with heatsinks, fans, backplates and shrouds.
>>47160621
smaller transistors use less power and produce less heat
is it possible to use my computer as a space heater?
>>47161252
>I remember when your run of the mill PC could run the latest and greatest games
Do you also remember how you paid 3x more for that run of the mill PC than you do now for a good pc?
>>47162143
a very weak space heater
unless you have crossfire 290X's or something you're not going to get much heat
>>47162294
This is not true. I have a single 670 and it works very well as a space heater in some games.
>>47160357
that's a FirePro, made for professional work like CAD and stuff
>>47160379
that's for gaming. they have different requirements
also, more processing power = hotter = need better cooling.
>>47162446
>more processing power = hotter
a G3220 runs hotter than pentium 4 D?
a GTX 760 runs hotter than a GTX 480?
>>47160426
it's a piece of plastic
Gamers care about performance, so we get these insane cooling setups.
Just buy the low-mid end cards to avoid this, and remain in the era of sane GPUs.
>>47162512
>comparing different generations and architectures
>>47160379
I have the DirectCU II. It's all right. Nice solid backplate on it. What's your problem OP?
>>47160772
He said skip
>>47160621
Ah, CPUs use heat you say? You don't know what the fuck you're saying do you
>>47162143
I used my AMD 6970 as a heater. Fucker ran at 60-70°C when idle.
I never used my normal heater when I had that thing.
>>47162143
My Radeon HD7670m and 8800GTX have kept my room at an unpleasant heart for the past hours.
That should teach me for trying to play gaymes on a laptop.
>>47164608
... and the window has been cracked the whole time, but I'm sweating in my T-shirt.
>>47160373
derail of the year
