Have I just halfed the life of my GTX295

[Born_2_Kill_83]

Playing an hours worth of Shift and I noticed the frame rates slowing, 15 mins later crash to desktop, strange I thought, then I remembered I didnt increase the fan speed (overclocked 650/1200/1400). Checked GPU-Z 95 degrees
Have I done any serious harm? I cooked it good for at least an hour, have a shorten my cards life?

 

[gurusan]

nah they have thermal throttling, no danger at all really.

Got to be a reason it's that hot though....when's the last time you cleaned the dust out?

 

[BigRazer93]

hmm i wouldn't say so, i would leave it off for 10 mins, then leave it overclocked and bang the fan speed on 100% for about half hour while playing see if its fine. And no i doubt it would wreck the life span

 

[Born_2_Kill_83]

nah they have thermal throttling, no danger at all really.

Got to be a reason it's that hot though....when's the last time you cleaned the dust out?

Fan was only on 25% (default boot) and yes it needs a cleanout probably

 

[Tom|Nbk]

Probs just toasted that tim up nicely

 

[Dazboots]

Probs just toasted that tim up nicely

he will save on the central heating anyways.

 

[LeJosh]

I'm fairly certain it would only lower it's life if you had it like that all the time.

 

[chaparral]

nah they have thermal throttling, no danger at all really

But the memory may not like that much heat....

I remember when the memory packed up on my x1900xt-x because of it running very hot in my shuttle...

 

[Gashman]

But the memory may not like that much heat....

I remember when the memory packed up on my x1900xt-x because of it running very hot in my shuttle...

had a similar problem with my watercooled 7600GTs when they were stupidly overclocked all the time with no cooling on the memory except those crappy ramsinks, fried my memory!

 

[AMG]

it depends how long you had it like that, smell burning ?

anyways if it still works, flawlessy than you have got away with it for now

off topic note, is shift any good?

I so wanna get a G25

 

[jigger]

You wont have done it any harm Mr forgetful

AMG, Been made to be very buggy on ATI cards apparently.

 

[Born_2_Kill_83]

Thats good then, thankx for the reply's I did touch the metal gills on the side of the card and I couldnt hold my fingure on for any longer than a second, but no burning smell from the card.

Shift is o.k, the handling is a little off with a 360 controller and the cars seem a little slippy/light, but other than that great graphics, problems with ATI though I think, will be patched soon though.

 

[Psy-Blade]

Were you playing half life? (sorry)