Well the stock speeds for this card (found with powerstrip) are 250 on the core and 445.5 on the mem. I noticed when I cranked up the core to just 266 the back of the core was real warm. I bet if I left my finger on it for about 30-40 sec, I would have probably burned it. Is it ok for it to run that hot? I'm planing on modding the BIOS according to the sticky in the nVidia forum so I don't have tp use system resources to run powerstrip. Can someone tell me how to run 3D mark 2001 SE in a loop to test my card? Thanks guys!
oh btw- those ramsinks are from and older socket 370 Celeron from 98. The mobo fried on me, so I had no use for the heatsink.