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I'm running less volts and have tried two CPUs (delidded second one) and three HSFs now (whatever the big Phantek is called, D14, and D15).

My concern is that the VRM is running abnormally hot for some reason and dumping that heat into the ambient right beside the CPU, which affects how far I'm willing to push the chip. The VRM hits equilibrium idle temperature at about 68C which is much higher than a friend's identical setup (his...

What kind of temperatures should I be getting on the VRM at idle (after the computer has been on awhile)? Mine seems to be running pretty hot at mid 60 C idle (a buddy has the same board and is running 15 degrees cooler than me with the same case/cooling setup), wondering if I need to remount...

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Thanks for the advice everyone/thanks Redbeard for being awesome Ordered one - should be here soon!

I don't think it's a new version as such, just a minor revision - like if you look at the Newegg comments/reviews for the past few months people are saying their 800Ds had SATA3 and USB3.0 out of the box

I've read that there's revised 800Ds for a few months that come with USB3.0/SATA6, I was wondering if there's a way to ensure getting one of these revised units rather than an older one Are the boxes labeled/different or is just luck? Or have they been around long enough that I'll probably...

It could just be a niche card targeted at people who want to buy nVidia and who want surround support off a single card solution It wouldn't be terribly exciting, but it might be a financially viable niche

So based on the specs is the 650D missing any features of the 800D and/or does it have anything new? Besides the size difference of course

Well, after trying a few more things and getting nowhere I called up the local shop where I bought it, they said to bring the card back in - I did, they tested it on their machines, same crashing issues, they gave me a new card in exchange. I came home, plugged the new card into my machine...

it's not just BC2, it's like 10+ games I've tried besides BC2 - some of which were installed after getting the card

Okay, I just tried underclocking the card and it solves the problem, but it's not a heat issue - when it was crashing, it would sometimes happen at 40C So bad card? :(

fwiw it doesn't crash at all in SC2 (just played for 40 minutes) but it crashes almost immediately in bfbc2, the witcher, civ 5 :(

I just replaced my 4870x2 with a 580 GTX and I'm having issues Pretty much every game I try on it is causing a vid driver crash relatively quickly, I've removed everything and run driver sweeper multiple times and reinstalled drivers and I'm still having the same issue What do I do next...

So we've got the 580 and the 6970 out now, and the 6990 out more or less imminently What else do you expect to see in the near future at the high end? SLI-on-a-card Nvidia? A higher memory 570 and/or 580? Something else?