OCAddiction gets a chance to sit down with both the GF FX 5900 Ultra and the Radeon 9800 Pro video cards and live to tell which one comes out on top.
Not only does the FX 5900 Ultra have great GPU cooling, the memory chips are cooled with gargantuan sized sinks that are mounted separately from the GPU cooler. Add to this the fact that you can overclock the 5900 at both the 2D and 3D level; you can keep your card cooler while not running in 3D Apps if you’re the type to keep your card overclocked day in, day out. Memory chips get hot on the R9800 Pro yet this particular model does not have any sinks on the memory. Fortunately, ATi implemented them on their newer R9800 Pro 256MB model which has DDR II that can get very hot.Read more
