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    card just sparked out

    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...
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    card just sparked out

    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?
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    card just sparked out

    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...
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    Who's staying with skt 775?

    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...
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