Before running our heat stress test to see how effective the EN7900GT TOP cooling solution really is, we did a routine check of RivaTuner's fan control tab. What we saw here seems to suggest the EN7900GT TOP's fan are set to the default values of every other GeForce 7900GT.
Now, we wanted to know how well each card's cooling solution perform under typical gameplay scenarios. So, we started RivaTuner's hardware monitoring utility and fired up Quake 4's final level - the Nexus - to see how hot the card can get. Below is a snapshot from RivaTuner.
62° Celsius is decidedly average. In this regard the ASUS EN7900GT TOP is not worse or better than any other card in this round up. Things maybe be a little bit different if they had used a cooler with a slightly larger heat dissipation area or make the air intake hole a little bit larger. Of course, this could be a cost saving measure, if so they're pretty successful in keeping the core cool and noise levels down with slightly smaller cooler.
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