I hope not, the card's out of warranty now I guess, and I'd rather not have to shell out to get a replacement.
I take it that the cards has been cleaned out from dust.
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I hope not, the card's out of warranty now I guess, and I'd rather not have to shell out to get a replacement.
Yeah the case is pretty clean overall, minimal dust on anything.
Yeah the fins are clean, never really allowed any dust to build up on it.

The drivers are not up still 9.5.
Says 9.5 for me but when i download it says they are 9.6 lol.
I hope not, the card's out of warranty now I guess, and I'd rather not have to shell out to get a replacement.
guess notThese are up now http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx
What do we use for windows 7? The WHQL driver or the 9.6s?
Does anyone have any idea if the latest drivers have had a positive effect (lessened) the idle power consumption of ATI's GDDR5 equipped cards?
Anyone having problems with this?
In cs 1.6 my fps is dipping below 100fps :S