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Old Jan 13, 2010, 07:31 PM   #290
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Originally Posted by overclocking101 View Post
well you sure were right about this! fried my memory controller big time! I can still get the card to post and boot windows but major artifacts as the memory isnt getting correct constant volatge lol. i had it running 790 core and 1150 mem and trimmed up the mem voltage a bit more looked down an was watching sparks come off the mem controller shut down and boom dead controller oh well you live you learn. I got another 4850 coming this time i wont vmod the memory just the core lol
Yeah, I don't know if it's just my luck or what, but I have a 100% failure rate on vmem modded cards. And we aren't talking crazy voltages, I'm talking going from a stock 2.0 to 2.05 or 2.10 with additional cooling on the memory.
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