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Originally Posted by fatty
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Originally Posted by P_Funk
I once owned an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. Not bad for when I had it. But one day I started to get artifacts and gaming would make the computer force restart.
I checked my card and lo and behold my stock fan had died, less than 3 minths after purchase. No overclocking, and no warning either. So for a month I had no fan on my video card but I didn't know because there wasn't any built in heat detection of it.
Lesson learned. #1. Don't buy ATI cards. #2. Replace the stock fan if you need to use it. And for overclocking especially.
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The identical thing happened to me with an nVidia card. It comes down to luck I'm afraid, not the manufacturer. |
Great. So I'm boned.
Hmmm... maybe I should look into getting an ASUS video card. They're interesting. I saw one cool one a few weeks ago that had fan-less cooling! Just one big fat heat sync.
