http://www.geeks3d.com/20100331/cook-your-eggs-with-a-geforce-gtx-480
Cook Your Eggs With a GeForce GTX 480
That’s what the guys at Legit Reviews have tried:
After nearly 45 minutes of running benchmarks and playing some games the egg white was turning white, but it was no where near cooked. Oh well, we tried! We had the fan on auto the entire time, so if you turned the fan down lower you might have some better luck.
Maybe with FurMark that would have been another story
I really like this funny picture: GeForce GTX 480: The Way It’s Meant To Be Grilled!
http://www.geeks3d.com/20100402/geforce-gtx-480-chip-is-designed-to-run-at-high-temperature
GeForce GTX 480 Chip is Designed To Run at High Temperature
According to Drew Henry (NVIDIA’s GeForce General Manager), the GF100 is designed to run at high temperature. It’s the result of a tradeoff as he says in NVIDIA’s blog about GTX 480 power and heat:
We wanted to let you know that we’ve also heard your concerns about GTX 480 with respect to power and heat. When you build a high performance GPU like the GTX 480 it will consume a lot of power to enable the performance and features I listed above. It was a tradeoff for us, but we wanted it to be fast. The chip is designed to run at high temperature so there is no effect on quality or longevity. We think the tradeoff is right.
Yes I can understand this tradeoff, but if you have 120W higher power consumption than the competition which is about 70% more, for a 15% more performance (5870 vs 480), that is one fucked up tradeoff.
Not to mention the 27W idle power consumption of the 5870 compared to 70W of the 480. Thats 260% more power consumption.