The tests were performed in a controlled air conditioned room with temperatures maintained at a constant 24c – a comfortable environment for the majority of people reading this.
Idle temperatures were measured after sitting at the desktop for 30 minutes. Load measurements were acquired by running Furmark and Cinebench together.
Under Furmark load the nVidia solution peaked at 96 degrees C which is higher than we would have liked. To be fair, when gaming this figure was normally hovering around the 85c zone, but potentially this card could break the 90c barrier, especially if the environmental conditions were warm.