ATI R600 to get a new cooler

WE have confirmation that ATI plans to do something about its rather criticised R520/R580 cooler. It is efficient, but sometimes it can get rather noisy. Nvidia's heat pipe G70 and G71 GTX cooler does a better job as it is not as noisy.

ATI sort of listens to the market and so it plans to redesign the R600 cooler. We don't yet have details how this new stuff is supposed to look like but if you know that R600 should be the biggest and warmest chip ever, we expect a very efficient cooler.

It has to be better from the current R580 cooler as the present one has reached its limits with the current hardware. The upcoming one will just get hotter. µ