My GPU has been Fried

[Hidamari]

Well it's as equally smart as putting it in the refrigerator. I'm surprised it even worked afterwards, albeit not for long. Maybe you should've seeked proper technical support before squeezing its last breath.

apart from the unorthodox method of cooling it down which maybe I can agree immediatley warrants a "wtf" response, I see nothing wrong with putting it in the fridge for 4-5 minutes. my fridge is relatively dry, and it wasnt in for long and was nicely cooled, there was also a gap before I put it back into the computer but for the sake of a shorter post and the hope of not being trolled pointlessly anyway I decided to leave that part out.

maybe I could understand your trolling if i said "and so I took it out and put it in some ice cold water for 30 minutes, making sure it was fully submerged before taking it out and putting it back into my machine, sadly it didnt work still"

once it had overheated once that was it, the damage was done, and it was a downward spiral after that.

I have a new one now, and its working good so far, its also much better than my last one, so im happy.

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[Cond0r]

brb, taking my pc to a watchmaker shop cuz I wanna over-clock it.

gonna put it in the oven when I get back to warm it up before boot.

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[17:23:05] Mini Me: pls
[17:23:06] Mini Me: gtfo

[Brix]

maybe if you started with oven you would have better luck.

linky

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[Hidamari]

brb, taking my pc to a watchmaker shop cuz I wanna over-clock it.

gonna put it in the oven when I get back to warm it up before boot.

GG

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[Daedric]

I had a pair of 7950GTs. One of them went to a better place a couple weeks ago. I fear for the well being of the other.

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[jimmy Patterson]

it should of kicked off automaticly ironicly to prevent it frying for all you know the fridge could of killed it

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[snhsnake]

http://www.evga.com/precision/

This is a program called precision.

This is a program that allows overclocking and fan speed adjustments.
I have a NVIDIA 460 GTX and with NVIDIA Drivers installed, my fan speed is only 30 percent.
This will make your card run hot. I use this program to increase fan speed to about 50 percent or so
and have no problems.

Only adjust the fan speed, you overclock the card at your own risk.

[Switchback]

http://www.evga.com/precision/

This is a program called precision.

This is a program that allows overclocking and fan speed adjustments.
I have a NVIDIA 460 GTX and with NVIDIA Drivers installed, my fan speed is only 30 percent.
This will make your card run hot. I use this program to increase fan speed to about 50 percent or so
and have no problems.

Only adjust the fan speed, you overclock the card at your own risk.

I prefer Nvidia inspector, has more options for OCing. I have a pair of GTX260s running perfectly fine, never have had any problems with them(other then the SLI fail I had to fix)

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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

[Scan]

Putting it in the fridge ... :crazy:Well, whatever "killed" off your gpu, putting it in the fridge probably wasn't the best idea, but I guess you had no time, eh? Next time you might wanna try to thoroughly clean the graphic card after it had some time to cool down and my gut feeling tells me that you wouldn't have lost your old card then.


MfG

Martin

[KrazeeXXL]

clean your pc every quarter of a year and you minimize the risk of frying your hardware... even if it was 4/5 years old the 8800 is a pretty good card imo. I'm astonished that it worked for 4 years w/o cleaning it o0

Well perhaps you live in a village, country-side that'd explain it;)

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