Originally Posted by T D

My HD4870 died during folding but would have died anyway since VRM temps were up. RMA ftw.

Originally Posted by SniperXX

From my testing folding seems a sure fire way to test overclocks. I've had some be fine with other apps but the load FAH puts on the card makes it unstable.\\

As for me, no problems on any of my gpus. I do run the fans @ 100% to keep the chips as cool as possible and I monitor my temps.

My 8800GTX has folded for almost a year straight with zero problems. The shaders are even bumped up 200MHz. My 8800GT cars are fine @ stock speeds due to the stock heatsink sucking with overclocks. Heck I even fold on my 285s.

Those with problems, was your fan speed at 100%?

Originally Posted by prosser13

You're completely correct. It is not folding in particular - however, folding will cause it, whether the overclock is stable or not. Simply overclocking will cause electromigration to occur faster (doubling the clock speed doubles the TDP, while doubling the voltage quadruples the TDP), but it will still occur over time