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Originally Posted by frau kaleun
Weird, unless it's a "cover our butts" thing on behalf of Asus.
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It is. Recommend someone something insufficient and they'll complain. Overstate it and have them end up with power to spare and customer is a happy camper.
A happy camper who's a few bucks lighter, but happy nonetheless.
Size of the Radeons is an issue, heard that before. Definitely a point to stay aware of. MSI does good mboards and I've seen them present several highly-praised cards (at least in reviews) as well, usually because of a high factory overclock or some custom cooler design (iirc).
If heat and noise are a concern, get one with a custom cooler. Forgive me for plugging my 460, but just look at it:
Never hear the thing and it tops out at 65C unless I'm running some ridiculous stress-test.
(point being that those designs are really effective)