Has your Nvidia GPU melted down?

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Nvidia's second quarter business update, released Wednesday, was mostly bad news for the company. But there's potentially bad news for consumers, too. Nvidia revealed plans to take a $150 million to $200 million charge to cover anticipated repair and return costs arising from a "weak die/packaging material set in certain versions of its previous generation GPU and MCP products used in notebook systems."

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I bought a 8600GT not too long ago (2 to 3 months) and recently it started freezing while playing games. I later discovered that the cooling fan was permanently running slowly and when its temperature reached about 100 Deg C (measured with Nvidia Control Panel) it would freeze up. The heatsink almost burnt me when I was checking for possible causes. I've placed an old CPU cooling fan on top of the heatsink to cool it down. Temperatures are now about 20 Deg lower on average and no more freezing. I have had very few problems with Nvidia cards...up to now :(
PS. The card wasn't made by Nvidia tho....only the GPU. Forgotten who made the card.
 
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My mate just owes me R200. I bet him a while back that the high temps that Nvidia runs its chips at are going to bite them eventually because their reference cooling sucks.

I see they took out cover for GPU's on notebooks.
 
And you think ATI's new 48xx series is any better ?

Heck ... Nvidia may have got the pricing wrong - but the 200 series uses a third of the power consumption at idle and runs about 20 degrees cooler under load.

They're calling the 4870 the new "Prescott". If anyone remembers that masterpiece of intel CPU thermal design horror.

Better take out cover now on those cards - because it would appear hordes of buyers are investing in after market coolers from the get-go.

When will they all learn.
 
Its only hot coz the auto fan speed doesnt work properly...think a software update somewhere would fix it...unlike the physical fan
 
Nameite said:
Its only hot coz the auto fan speed doesnt work properly...think a software update somewhere would fix it...unlike the physical fan
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I think you may be referring to my post. I did update the drivers to check. Using the manual speed control makes no difference at all to the fan speed, so something somewhere is definitely cooked (to a cinder).
 
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