I think temperatures arent such an issue, but noise can be if the case is not well ventilated. I have thermaltake element S with several fans (also two big, one blowing directly onto the VGA, another upper output). In 3D mark vantage I didnt hear my card.
ALso another problem. I wouldnt buy ATI 5970 until SOW is out, because there can be a problem with multipleVGA such as rise fo flight or FSX have, and the ń you would get only half the graphics power, as 5970 is essentially two cards connected by crossfire on single PCB.
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Originally Posted by Flanker35M
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SoW will be DirectX 9/10/11 so either ATI or nVidia will work just fine on it. I use at the moment MSI 480GTX and temperature after hours of IL-2 is around 74-76'C so not that hot in my opinion. Sure some degrees more than ATI 5870HD I had but still manageable. Will buy a new VGA cooler for the 480GTX soon. Also updating to the latest BIOS from card vendor dropped temperatures nearly 10'C under load.
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