Get yourself a nice 37-46" full HD lcd tv for the same price. If you don't really need the resolution for anything else than gaming, the it aint worth it. I had a 3065 for about 16 months and while it's sure a nice monitor, not worth the price imo..
And besides that video card sure as hell...
I don't know if this is common knowledge here, but I came across an application that heats up a graphics card like no other. Great for testing OC stability. My 8800 gts 512 heats up to about 80c with fan ~65%.
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I don't see what the problem is here.. Why RMA it now? Use it for as long as it works and THEN rma it. If it has a 1 year warranty the rma it 364 days from now if it still works then. By then you'll be so bored at the card anyway you won't care if it took 1 month to get a new one..
90 degrees is just so goddamn much! I remember everyone shitting their pants when g80s hit 80 degrees, now it seems like 95-100 is still acceptable. maybe in 2010 the "norm" will be 150 degrees. Who knows?
Crysis is really the only game that requires more powah. Everything else runs perfectly fine with g80/g92 and hd38xx.. So it's not that the videocard companies are in that much a hurry. I wouldn't mind being able to play crysis at 2560 x 1600, 16x aa & 16x af with all settings at "very high"...
I made a short video in sandbox 2 and left the fps counter on. It demonstrates that videos like this are definitely not real time.
My sandbox experiment in 720p: HERE
And this was done with a core 2 duo e4300 running at 3204MHz.