I dont know whether to feel embarased or stupid right now, bit of both really!
My question is in the title, but for those of you interested in the story, here it is.
I have had a new rig sitting here, about a month now, all the parts, except the graphics card, so as it is, it was just sitting as a massive paper weight while my old machine strugles on.
Quite often actually, me and some of my buddies, test stuff on our rigs, you know, mines only does this on that set up how is it on yours blah blah (good way of trouble shooting I've found). Anyways to the point, we got our hands on a HD 2900XT. I was aware those cards ran hot, but didnt think a bit of oc'n for benchmark purposes could of hurt. I kept increasing the settings, but, my eye wasnt paying attention to the temps (was on my newphew spilling juice all over my sofa!) and eventually, the whole thing switched off and refused to boot up. We both agreed that it was probably an over heat, and left it an hour to cool down, with the side case taken off (was never on anyway while we did this). Got back to it, and as I dis connected the PCI connectors a smigen of red, well, paint it seemed was on my finger, the card wasnt that warm any more, but it certainly felt, soft. I attempted to pull it out the PCI socket and it was immediately apparant then, the whole card was, not just broke, but melted. The heat sinc was only held on by the melted matter of the plastic Maybe I am slightly over exagerating the 'melting' thing, but it certainly feels much softer than before. The motherboard is fine, nothing melted onto it thankfully enough. Strangely to, you would think if the card was melting, it would of gave up the ghost a long time before it did I didnt think these things could physically go beyond a certain frequency before it just cuts out and you get the black screen with cannot display this video mode. I couldnt tell you what the settings where when it went but last time I checked it was easily past 15% stock values.
So what do you think?
Just about to read the warranty that came with it
Your oc'n nub
Martyn
My question is in the title, but for those of you interested in the story, here it is.
I have had a new rig sitting here, about a month now, all the parts, except the graphics card, so as it is, it was just sitting as a massive paper weight while my old machine strugles on.
Quite often actually, me and some of my buddies, test stuff on our rigs, you know, mines only does this on that set up how is it on yours blah blah (good way of trouble shooting I've found). Anyways to the point, we got our hands on a HD 2900XT. I was aware those cards ran hot, but didnt think a bit of oc'n for benchmark purposes could of hurt. I kept increasing the settings, but, my eye wasnt paying attention to the temps (was on my newphew spilling juice all over my sofa!) and eventually, the whole thing switched off and refused to boot up. We both agreed that it was probably an over heat, and left it an hour to cool down, with the side case taken off (was never on anyway while we did this). Got back to it, and as I dis connected the PCI connectors a smigen of red, well, paint it seemed was on my finger, the card wasnt that warm any more, but it certainly felt, soft. I attempted to pull it out the PCI socket and it was immediately apparant then, the whole card was, not just broke, but melted. The heat sinc was only held on by the melted matter of the plastic Maybe I am slightly over exagerating the 'melting' thing, but it certainly feels much softer than before. The motherboard is fine, nothing melted onto it thankfully enough. Strangely to, you would think if the card was melting, it would of gave up the ghost a long time before it did I didnt think these things could physically go beyond a certain frequency before it just cuts out and you get the black screen with cannot display this video mode. I couldnt tell you what the settings where when it went but last time I checked it was easily past 15% stock values.
So what do you think?
Just about to read the warranty that came with it
Your oc'n nub
Martyn
Last edited by Bell (2007-07-03 17:06:48)
