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Originally Posted by randomflip
So the fact you think something like that "maybe" sounds strange in a forum like "this", you implying no-one in this forum has friends? Whats up with that 
My friend has an 8800GT that I helped him install/troubleshoot and my gf which i might add lives in the same room as me has a 4650 that I installed and help her troubleshoot as well, still though I do not post comments about how those cards work from my perspective simply cause their not mine weather or not I've read information online me posting about possible heat issues etc. would be completely irrelevant, its just another small way of opposing. Yes yes the 4xxx series can get too hot and maybe die but IMO I think the user will notice if its in trouble then obviously either report back to the retailer or just look online for a solution, once again no biggie and again becomes too small of an issue to be considered when buying a card, my reference 4850 ran at 110 degrees at summer for a few weeks at load 69 idle nothing went wrong with it until I broke it by installing an aftermarket cooler LOL the irony :/.
EDIT: It might have been because the accelero screws were on too tight and that i didn't use the swashbucklers .. :/ |
I'm not implying that no one here has friends, I was just making a joke on the fact that so many people ask if you have this or that graphics card, as implying that if you don't own one you don't know anything about them. When that happens I always wonder, do these guys have friends? They never talk to anyone or what? As I said I have many friends and I have installed, OCed and mantained a lot of cards, from almost every manufacturer. I don't need to own a card to know how it works. I have spent almost as many hours with my friends' cards as I did with mine. Not playing, testing I mean, no benchmarking or heavy overcloking with my current PC, I've left that already until I need it for gaming. And every time there is a problem it's me who resolved it. And of my friends only 2 have an HD48x0, but both have had artifacting due to high temps. Yeah no need to return them in the end, but it was desperating for the user and for me that I had to spend a lot of time in the telephone until we managed to solve the problem. OH and from personal experience I can say that artifacting due to overheating is one of the most traumatic of the problems if it comes from factory, because the conditions in their RMA lab can be different than yours and they could simply not change your card.
Anyway, I usually stay away from my personal experience for such claims as the ones I have made and rely in the internet, because my experience is very limited compared to the big knowledge base in the internet, as in order to speak statistics are much more important, and statistics needs a big sample base. You see only 2 of my friends have HD48xx cards and only three have GTX2xx. Most of them have still 8800, HD38xx and X1900. The only 2 cards that have had problems lately were the HD48xx cards, both Saphire, so not a problem of cheap manufacturer. It's just that as Mussels said any card can overheat, but it's just easier for a card that starts at over 90ºC than one that starts at 70ºC under load.