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To: Patrick Grinsell who wrote (9559)	12/12/1998 8:59:00 PM
From: Xpiderman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

First Look at ATI's Rage 128 by Tom's Hardware www4.tomshardware.com Rage 128 Is Running TOO HOT!!! Well, sorry to destroy this myth, but my measurements showed that Rage 128 reaches no less than 91 degrees Celsius (!!!!) when running Quake 2, almost enough to boil water. Therefore I would like to kindly advise ATI to do something about it, unless they want to risk some kind of meltdown in consumer systems, particularly on motherboards. Problem Summary The chip is getting way too hot. ATI told me that the case temperature of the Rage 128 can go up to 115 degrees Celsius without causing damage to the chip. The only question is, who wants to have such a hot part inside his computer case, heating up everything around it and causing possible problems for other components. Heat doesn't come from nothing, it takes energy in form of high current to produce this heat. Thus the question is what power consumption the Rage 128 has. ATI is aware of this problem, which is particularly touchy for the Rage 128 chips that are supposed to go onto motherboards. Thus ATI has done a re-design of the silicon and hopes that the next revision will not produce as much heat.