Quote from: joec0p on June 13, 2011, 06:28:26 PM

So is the stock cooler on the high end AMD cards up to the task of GPU mining? or will the cards burn out faster from being insufficiently cooled?

Still, I am quite curious.

My unlocked 6950 keeps up perfectly. ATM in a (temporary) bad case, noise is audible but not terrible, OC to 920/1250 and fan at 68%. Temps are at a constant 62C. Usually I do 950Mhz core, but my mobo fried (not due to mining), throwing out a nice 405 MH/s. I try to keep my temps below 75C all the time, and its possible. However, at night I have to underclock, its just too loud or gets too hot.

Mining at 950 core with fan at 100% leaves temps at 57C. So in short, yes the stock (reference) coolers are up to the task by far.