Graphic Cards Scary death of a 7900GS

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mehargags

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man look at this article:tongue:
nVidia ForceWare Vista Driver Blunder – Thermal Management? :: TweakTown

The graphics card managed to generate so much heat that it completely melted the plastic clips which attach the VGA water block to the card – a quick test with a cigarette lighter shows that the water block area which screws into the card is flammable, we must have got lucky there and avoided that catching on fire. It also got so hot that it melted the upper copper surface of the VGA block and imprinted the nVidia logo and parts of the GPU core information writing onto the water block base itself, as you can see above. On the reserve side of the water block (the side that doesn’t make contact with the GPU core), we saw discoloration of the copper surface – the surface even started to crack in areas suggesting that bizarre temperatures must have been reached at its peak. Basically, it was a scary sight – to think the graphics card allowed itself to reach such extreme temperatures, it was a blessing that PCB didn’t catch on fire and I hate to say, the entire and computer and possibly subsequently the desk and then house. There’s obviously a low chance of that happening but when you’re working with such high temperatures, anything is possible and cannot be left to chance.
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its both vista + nvidia at fault, sad stuff, and to think vista was ready for use, maybe not until for a couple of months at least i guess, thats why the public launch is next yr

im sure ms had this in mind that pirates OR system testers will face such issues until launch so itsa nice way 2 show the finger 2 the pirates and to act stupid with system testers
 
Welll....

Even i have this card in mind, Hd thought of purchasin it by Month end..!!

Do v have any other better card wid same price-performance ratio in 10K +-2K
 
abe yaar what has happened to I.Q. of members here ? or is it extraordinary difficult english above ?

Its not a hardware Fault - its not any fault but a pure instantious situation where possibility of the Drivers not working/talking properly with the OS VISTA leads to this kind of disaster. infact whatever is stated above is almost unbelievable as a real life example. I never expected such dumb impressions over the topic here.
 
Well i am considerin it for usìng wid VISTA so i am worried.

no prob wid h/w wid normal use,bt wt if suckd wid VISTA
 
thats the price u pay if u freak after "The Newest Cutting Edge" technology. Vista is just born, not even in its adolsence stage yet. Give it some time, Speacialy the third party driver/software manufacturers before concluding it "sucks".
 
Dude i ASKD!!

Dint conclude anythin,eithrways my hardware knwledge is very superficial..

its just i read its reviews n so gt intrstd,so m bound to get surprisd wid the knwldge i have.

easy dude,hd a rough day or what! :P
 
hey mehargags

Easy man. Each of us would have gone through that "dumb" phase :P (I know I have :rofl: ) ..... We all are here to learn from each other.....
 
ya mehargags just chill I was a awarded super noob when I had joined & now I know a lot more & can help many & lastly I can OC every platform now :P
 
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