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Possible problem with GPU sale

badbob

badbob

badbob

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Sold a fully working ATI X1900XT flashed to 1900XTX on avforums, and now after 10 days of owning it he's come back to me. At stock and overclocked it was perfectly stable (moreso than this nvidia 8800GT) and under 30-35 idle 50 load. I would not have put up a faulty card, I'm not con man.

I know these cards get quite hot but this one is actually melting the solder on the coolers heatpipes (left a nice blob or two on the PCi slot & motherboard - luckily no permanent damage done). It's also continuously crashing the PC in any game (no doubt due to the heat issue). I did have to shorten the cooler so I could get the top on the case but it was crashing before & after the surgery so I'm sure that's not the problem. Did you have any heat/crashing problems with it?(it's fine in 2D mode),I know the bios has been flashed to XTX speeds but I've underclocked it to original & below and it's still getting amazingly hot. I don't really know what to do about this situation,your thoughts would be appreciated. It's in a Zalman HTPC case and even with the top off and a fan blowing onto the cooler it smells red hot within about 30 seconds of playing any game,crashes and then switches the PC off.
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I wonder if his "mod" has cut the heatpipes? And isn't solder melting point around 300 degrees c? hm no 180 degrees c.
 
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The only thing I could think of (without knackering anything) is removing the plastic piece from the top of the Accelero S1.
 
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