Recent content by ashleyobrien

not that this helps you now, but a thing i always do with new cards (done it to my 3 GTX280's) is carefully take out the back panel (for gtx280 its 2 tiny screws and one little tang that needs to be cut thru-no biggy) and then using a small hand grinder like a dremel completely cut out the grill...

well then , given all that, it looks like a case of god doin his thing....theres clearly damage to more than one of those mosfets, how long had the block been installed for before it did the funky chicken?

dude, that is brutal! judging by the look of those mosfet's looks like a thermal-runaway failure, and not just down to a single component failure, fans running ok? no blocked vents? its strange how they put pads on things like memchips and not the power conditioning semiconductors, becos those...

ok all you guys out there, this is my first ever post on any forum ever, and I really have to ask, given that at high res the graphic card(s) does the business, is it REALLY necessary to upgrade from socket 775? even if you're using somit like a E8400, like me? I'v also got 3 GTX280's, X-Fi...