So the Fermi connection has a basis, in Fact.

800 WATTS !?!!?!1111!!!!!!7-11
A pair overclocked [!!] off a KILOWATT main PS. ... I buy an efficient reefer; this guy cancels out about 8 of them.
Shades of the Veyron 250 (mph not watts) road test, wherein, "tires are good for 15 minutes; that's OK though because the fuel runs out in 12."

Unusually informative -pedia article re the high-precision designs and the game Real-time purposes.
Love. It. One expects such cognitive dissonance in Times like these (as have never Been, before. Planetary Peril being generally only One-per-Planet, I wot.)

And a commenter at Newegg got it right too:


Cons: These cards run at higher temperatures, especially when they're under load. But....Wait for it! They were designed that way, and therefore tolerate higher temps. Also, manually increasing the fan speed helps to keep the GPU cooler.



Answer: Electronics never Likes 'hi-temp' and those items that tolerate [mil-spec] a bit more of that.. do so at reduced MTBF, for all reasons Sig. Fermi could elucidate, while peering at the Periodic Chart and the 2p/2s electron shells ... and how far they can oscillate before they forget their Momma -- OK, that's a too-technical answer. But fun.

Thanks, as so often, you pointed to exactly what I wanted to grok about this sport, including the usual clash twixt real-time CPU, software with a few buffer overflows and: voracious Gamers, lusting for an Authentic Vicarious <sic> experience of causing The Big Crunch;
jes watchin the Universe, femtosec by femtosec:
heading for

Everything •••···> Nothingness.



Bloody Power freaks!