Well sorta, card itself is fine its the heatsink that went screwy. Fan seems to have come off its mount and currently is bouncing off the plastic shroud. Have to send it to ocuk on monday for rma. Heard of fans dieing before..first time ive seen a fan actauly come off but still work.
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3870x2 broked!
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Did you overclock it that much that the fan needed 120% to cool the poor card and then it broke 
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Sorry to hear. What have you got to use until the replacement comes?.
Probably his other X2!!!
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C'mon Gerard you noob!, we want pictures!!!.
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You've been overclocking? Warranty void
How would they know you have overclocked it? unless you flashed the card's bios?
Same for anything really, if you haven't lapped your cooler / cpu, return all bios settings to 'bios optimal' how would anyone know a returned part had been overclocked?
Same for anything really, if you haven't lapped your cooler / cpu, return all bios settings to 'bios optimal' how would anyone know a returned part had been overclocked?
Well they all have a small chip now that logs all clock and mem frequencys throughout the lifetime of the card. Sometimes you see two pins sticking out of the board, thats where they plug into to retrieve the data.
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Well they all have a small chip now that logs all clock and mem frequencys throughout the lifetime of the card. Sometimes you see two pins sticking out of the board, thats where they plug into to retrieve the data.
frist ive herd of this ( herd of this sorta thing but store in the bios data or somthin) but dose sound like somthing i would do
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For those who missed the smilies, I was kidding 
For those who missed the smilies, I was kidding
You just scared half the forum with your first comment
. I knew you were having a laugh.Well they all have a small chip now that logs all clock and mem frequencys throughout the lifetime of the card. Sometimes you see two pins sticking out of the board, thats where they plug into to retrieve the data.
Wonder if there's a way to ahem, "wipe" the chip