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GTX280 Destruction testing

Been OCing GPUs for years including voltmodding some and nothing GPU wise has died so far... when the fan failed on my heavily OC'd 5950ultra it got very warm - made a hot electric smell and after a couple of seconds of graphic corruption went to a grey screen - on rebooting it worked fine for many months after that til it was replaced.
 
so, you guys should "go for it, tri sli!" and spend £1500 on gfx cards to play crysis on a £200 monitor?

What a total knob.

And I found it immensely irritating how happy he was when it bust.

Whoop de do! You broke something and proved absolutely sod all in the process.

Oh and that top gfx card might have had a better chance if he'd left the side on the case. I genuinely hope that was his money going up in smoke because if so it's probably not safe for him to have those sorts of funds.

I appreciate this sounds like sour grapes but its really not, if I felt there was any serious requirement for a setup like that i could afford it without too much bother, he's just so irritating its got me all wound up! :)
 
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WJA96 said:
Errr - lots of people do have experience of things failing after overclocking them - Doesn't anyone remember the 7900GS? I'm pretty sure they all died after being overclocked. At least a few Wolfdales have bit the dust due to high VTT voltages, and graphics cards are infamous for 'sparklies of death' after they've been clocked a bit too hard.
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My point is HIGH means to me that you have a good chance of something to fail as if you had a 1000 parts and 700 failed that is high not 1 or 2% even if that.

edit :- what i mean is if things failed a lot as in high % then we would see a lot more on here, that how i took what he said about high meaning high %,I know people have problems but they are small % most of the time.
 
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Isn't 16Xaa broken on crysis? Wouldn't that explain why he was so stuck for words on his fps?

frigging idiot. and yes you need to check your clocks are safe temp wise, and if temps get that high, you turn it off.
 
queamin said:
My point is HIGH means to me that you have a good chance of something to fail as if you had a 1000 parts and 700 failed that is high not 1 or 2% even if that.

edit :- what i mean is if things failed a lot as in high % then we would see a lot more on here, that how i took what he said about high meaning high %,I know people have problems but they are small % most of the time.
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Seriously, kit does die when seriously overclocked. Very few people really overclock stuff. I don't overclock graphics cards because I blew up a pair of SLI'd 6800GS's some time ago, when I could least afford it. If you actually count the number of people posting overclocked results in the 4850 threads - it's about 4 people. Where stuff is commonly overclocked, there is a high-ish failure rate. Look at the failure rate on Crucial Ballistix RAM.
 
I had 2 sets of failed Ballistix ram, but that was due to me using 2.1V, I have it overclocked now @ 1.8V no problems, I must be lucky, never had anything die really apart from ram from using silly high voltage.
 
I've killed a couple of gfx cards with clocking, or at least thats all i can put it down to because there was no other reason for them to die.

Memory overclocking specifically, seems to be quite fragile on gfx cards.
 
willhub said:
I had 2 sets of failed Ballistix ram, but that was due to me using 2.1V, I have it overclocked now @ 1.8V no problems, I must be lucky, never had anything die really apart from ram from using silly high voltage.
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2.1V is the rated voltage. That's not silly or high. 2.5V to get 1400MHz - that's silly and high:D

And very short-lived:rolleyes:
 
WJA96 said:
2.1V is the rated voltage. That's not silly or high. 2.5V to get 1400MHz - that's silly and high:D

And very short-lived:rolleyes:
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Apparently 2.1 was responsible for killing them, the 667Mhz ballistix is running at 4-4-4-12 850Mhz atm at 1.8V, even my GeIL 800Mhz is undervolted at 850.
 
WJA96 said:
Seriously, kit does die when seriously overclocked. Very few people really overclock stuff. I don't overclock graphics cards because I blew up a pair of SLI'd 6800GS's some time ago, when I could least afford it. If you actually count the number of people posting overclocked results in the 4850 threads - it's about 4 people. Where stuff is commonly overclocked, there is a high-ish failure rate. Look at the failure rate on Crucial Ballistix RAM.
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I normally hammer more out of my videocard than my cpu but that for games but i am only on air at moment, and yes i not into the high end OC but he never said that.
I am on about how he worded it more than anything else
 
what a freaking idiot, im sure he has welsh/scottish in his accent though what ever it was made me want to be violant.
As for overclocking, you take one look at that tri sli set up and the breathing space between the cards you know eventually with a high enough clock you just arnt going to be able to maintain a constant enough supply of cool air. hardly a surprising fact but at the same point far from a statemant against overclocking.

idiot for the win!
 
"OMG IT'S INCREDIBLE 80 FPS IN CRYSIS IS UNHEARD OF IT'S CHEWING IT UP. AND ANTIALIASING TOO IT'S CHEWING IT UP AND SPITTING IT OUT."
 
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