Blown GPU?

[Dan J]

Put this:

MSI HD 7850 Twin Frozr III OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express

in this system:

AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core 720 Black Edition 2.80GHz (overclocked to 3.4Ghz)
Asus M4A78-E AMD 790GX (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Microsoft Windows 7 64 bit
Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX Dual Channel (TWIN2X4096-6400C5)
OCZ StealthXStream 500w Silent Power Supply
Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache -
1TB HDD
Cooler Master Elite 335 Case - Black
Sunbeam Core Contact Freezer CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM3/LGA775)

Fine for 24 hours then powered up and bam! the thing exploded... has been replaced by OcUK - the system works fine with the previous GPU (HD 4850).

Any reason why I should not shove the replacement straight in? Why would it have exploded??

Cheers!

 

[Cleeecooo]

Everything looks fine in your system, maybe it was just a dud card.

 

[Dan J]

Everything looks fine in your system, maybe it was just a dud card.

Great that's what I wanted to hear...just a bit nervous that it will happen again...I guess there is no reason why it would do though?

 

[Cleeecooo]

nope, not unless your PSU's seriously dodgy or you're somehow shorting it

 

[Dan J]

nope, not unless your PSU's seriously dodgy or you're somehow shorting it

Well it works fine with the old 4850 so I guess I'm not shorting it. The 500w PSU is getting on a bit now (3 1/2 yrs old) - but I figure the power drain can't be that much more between the 4850 and the 7850?

 

[Cleeecooo]

They seem to have near identical power usages, I'd bet your PSU is fine

Stick it in and have fun! (the card...)

 

[Dan J]

Stick it in and have fun! (the card...)

I might stick things other than the card in (for celebratory purposes) on successful installation but I'm not speccing my girlfriends system on a public forum.

 

[Cleeecooo]

Please don't stick your ding dong into your motherboard

 

[Jakus]

Could you see which part of the card exploded ?