Psycho-Joe

I've recently become a hardware tester.
You see, I have a friend that has a very nice rig, but he upgrades it every week.
So I get all his old hardware.
A month or two ago, he gave me one of his old 9600 GSO's. (XFX)
The thing seemed a bit underpowered at first, but it was a pretty good card anyhow.
So I tuned it up a bit, and it was absolutely great - for about a week.
Then one day I was playing guild wars and it was kinda hot in my room.
You see, I live in Florida. And it's getting to be summertime.
Well anyway, I wasn't paying close enough attention to my card temp, and it burned up. The reason I wasn't paying attention to my temps, was because I had only mildly overclocked the memory. Over the first week of testing, my temps never got outside of what I considered acceptable.
Then one day, it was hot outside, and my Air conditioner wasn't keeping my room cool enough, and wham! No more 9600GSO.
I can't totally pin down why this happened, but I believe that it has something to do with the crappy heatsink TIM that is stock on those cards.
So, my advice is, take that card out and throw it away.
Your other options are:
1) Underclock the GPU and Shader clock.
2) Water cool that bad boy.

Otherwise, it'll just probably burn up on you one day, when you aren't watching.

BlackOmega

Good to know. I guess I'll have to switch evrything over to my sig rig board.



Reps given to all thanks.

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BlackOmega

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Lol. Thanx Joe. These cards have actually been very good for me. I always keeps the fans on them @50% or better. Even with them OC'd ~26% with fan speeds @ 65% they barely hit 60*C. But theyre going to be dedicated folders so I'm not too worried about them. Theyre meant for a higher purpose.

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Skullzaflare

if you want a intel match to your sig rig board lol, i can hook you up with a DFI Icfx3200, it ran my x3220(q6600) it has 3 pcie slots, 2 pci slots between each


i just wanted to say that cause i lol'd when i seen your sig rig board lol

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Chris Ihao

Hi BlackOmega. What if you get something similar to this?:

http://images.google.no/imgres?imgur...a%3DN%26um%3D1

You should be able to find some cheap ram coolers that are low profile, which would take up far less space than the ones mounted on your cards. Those look awfully bulky and large.

I bought a few copper chip coolers that cost approximately 5 dollars for 8 pieces. At that price you could easily saw them down to an even more low profile size, if needed.

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