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[Retribution]

I have a nVidia 8600gt with 512mb ram. After a clean re-install of the latest drivers it runs Oblivion almost on the higher settings (no bloom and HDR ofc). I crossed my mind to get a new one but i'm still happy with it.

I feel ya pain mate.....
Exactly the same.
My two GTX285's cooked themselves.
I am ashamed of myself. Its stupid though, I have a Thermaltake M9 case with 4 large case fans & water cooling....
Oh well, time to start saving again

How is that possible?

[CommanderCrazy]

what, the overheating?
Dont ask mate. I dont know.
First they started buzzing a bit, then they started whining & I turned the pc off.
When I turned it back on later they were not there according to the pc.
I took it into a computer shop and after a bit of evaluation, the guy said "The GPU's are dead. You overheated them past the exception point." with a puzzled look on his face.

[Balagor]

A good advice for everybody, is never turn your pc off when gpu`s are overheated.
Turn off any games/applications immediately, but keep the pc running, thus
having all coolers running to cool down everything. That will save GPU´s and CPU´s
in the future.

[Illiad86]

what, the overheating?
Dont ask mate. I dont know.
First they started buzzing a bit, then they started whining & I turned the pc off.
When I turned it back on later they were not there according to the pc.
I took it into a computer shop and after a bit of evaluation, the guy said "The GPU's are dead. You overheated them past the exception point." with a puzzled look on his face.

Christ, the exception point is like 100C on some cards...what did you do?

Got my 5770, runs rather well, Oblivion runs smooth Crysis runs 30FPS solid with everything maxed to high (can't do very high don't have DX10 lol) @ 1920x1200 The boyfriend made me install the SP demo to see how awesome this card is He's jealous, he's got a 3870...he's trying to make me trade cards

[Thor.]

That really sucks having two cards fry like that, i always like to have more cooling then i need, i still have my 2 9800gtx with 1gb ram still working after 2 years, amazing really .

In wait for the nvidia 300gt to come, i hope it comes out soon

If it doesn't i might get a nvidia 295.

[CommanderCrazy]

Well, it was about 40 degrees (Celsius) here.
I was playing Crysis Warhead....
Completely maxed with DX10.
and, yeah.

BTW, there was also 2 large metal fans facing it to help the cooling, but still.

[CommanderCrazy]

Thor, The 295 takes a lot of grunt. (530ghz PSU minimum)
So, imagine the 300.......

[Thor.]

Yes thats right but they are already in sli, so it makes up for it, two 533cpu's equals to a decent clock speed. Especially if you get two of them.

[WoogieMonster]

I have been forced to down-grade my rig to dual EVGA 9800GT GPUs. I cried all night, and am still quite heartbroken. Tomorrow night after I've had time to test the new setup (and cry some more) I'll post how well my rig is running.
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Anyone have a tissue?

[CommanderCrazy]

I has 2