The general answer to your question is no. Of course there are
some exceptions, but heat is more of an issue with ATI's recent
models than Nvidia.

Well, the latest Nvidia cards (7900 series) indeed do have serious heat
problems, especially the versions that are clocked higher by default
than the generic version...

That's not good. I hope 6800 doesn't have that problem.


If you're getting heat-related failures (e.g. your dots in Doom3)
across multiple cards you either have incredibly bad luck, or
more likely you have some general issues with system cooling
(not enough airflow through your systems, high ambient room
temperatures, dust accumulation in your fans etc).

Right. Or he is overclocking the card...

I am not overclocking anything. NVIDIA v91.31 driver said:
Co 325.00
Memory: 750
Note: I did set the fan to be always on no matter what.

RivaTuner v2.0 RC16 said and monitored before, during, and after games:
Co 324.00
Memory: 752.14
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