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- Feb 28, 2012
Last night I was stress testing the overclock I could achieve on my graphics card using eVGA Precision and eVGA OC Scanner. I had GPU-Z open at the time as well. I was running below 80deg C @ 810-875MHz core clock (shader synced to 2x core) and I did not modify the standard GPU voltage of 1.05V. After running for ~30 minutes, I bumped the core clock to 900 and still did not go past 86deg C (90deg C was the limit I was watching for). After about 8-10 minutes of testing, the entire system shut off, and within 5 seconds I heard a single loud pop. I shut down the power to the supply and unplugged the box.
This is a brand new build and I completed a quick examination of the motherboard and did not see any burst caps. The GPU was too hot to handle and I will complete a more detailed examination this evening. In the meantime, I was curious if anyone could give me some pointers on where to look? I have a decent amount of CPU/memory OC experience but have never touched the GPU before and I typically err on the side of caution; I have never had a sudden major failure of a component before. The details of my build follow:
ASUS Maximus IV GENE-Z/GEN3 (BIOS 3103)
i5-2500K @ 4.6 (1.35V) w/Thermaltake Frio
8GB (2x4GB) Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz 9-9-9-24
eVGA GTX 560 Ti 448 Core Classified Ultra
Corsair 750HX
Corsair Force GT 120GB
This is a brand new build and I completed a quick examination of the motherboard and did not see any burst caps. The GPU was too hot to handle and I will complete a more detailed examination this evening. In the meantime, I was curious if anyone could give me some pointers on where to look? I have a decent amount of CPU/memory OC experience but have never touched the GPU before and I typically err on the side of caution; I have never had a sudden major failure of a component before. The details of my build follow:
ASUS Maximus IV GENE-Z/GEN3 (BIOS 3103)
i5-2500K @ 4.6 (1.35V) w/Thermaltake Frio
8GB (2x4GB) Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz 9-9-9-24
eVGA GTX 560 Ti 448 Core Classified Ultra
Corsair 750HX
Corsair Force GT 120GB