A moment of silence please....K, thanks!
Thought I would prep my computer for the 2400+ I was about to recieve, so I setup the computer out of the case to clean parts. While I had it out of the case, I thought it would be a good chance to test the 9600XT out of the case (much cooler conditions).
To my surprise, it finished 3dmark03 at 600/440 without a flicker. So I thought I would run alooping timedemo in quake 3 to test stability...Why the hell did I do that for.
After about 30 minutes I decided to goto the store, and when I returned. I thought the system was in "Stand By" mode, but it wasn't.
After I tried a few times to boot it, I decided to look at the card. When I touched the card, it was hot as a oven running at 500 degrees!
It was only the top portion, but damn it was hot!
I thought maybe after a little cooling it would work, but it doesn't. The card still get's power, but get's so hot where the heating coil is on the top portion of the card.
That's what I get for being greedy I guess, it sure does hurt tho.
Think I will take a break from overclocking for a while, I feel bad.
Thought I would prep my computer for the 2400+ I was about to recieve, so I setup the computer out of the case to clean parts. While I had it out of the case, I thought it would be a good chance to test the 9600XT out of the case (much cooler conditions).
To my surprise, it finished 3dmark03 at 600/440 without a flicker. So I thought I would run alooping timedemo in quake 3 to test stability...Why the hell did I do that for.
After about 30 minutes I decided to goto the store, and when I returned. I thought the system was in "Stand By" mode, but it wasn't.
After I tried a few times to boot it, I decided to look at the card. When I touched the card, it was hot as a oven running at 500 degrees!
It was only the top portion, but damn it was hot!
I thought maybe after a little cooling it would work, but it doesn't. The card still get's power, but get's so hot where the heating coil is on the top portion of the card.
That's what I get for being greedy I guess, it sure does hurt tho.
Think I will take a break from overclocking for a while, I feel bad.