GTX260 gets backed

[Le Creuset]

Yesterday my trusty 2 year old GTX260 bricked out on me after several days of purple artifacts and BSOD's. I run a dual monitor setup and the purple artifacts only showed up on the screen which the GTX260 was hooked into, the other is hooked up to my main GTX285. I was only used for this and physx for the 6 months or so. It had been part of a 3-sli setup but that should not have been an issue I think

After reading up on oven backing cards and a friend who succesfully baked his 7950GTX Go notebook card (I still think he's nuts about backing a mobile GPU) I gave it shot.

8 minutes at 200 degrees celcius and guess what it's back up and running, even did several stability tests...No problem it seems.

But I'm gonna give ATI a try next time, this should not happen on a 2 year old high end model...

 

[Jasonx82]

Ooooo Baked!!

Nice, great to hear your card works again!

 

[jediknight73]

whats "back" a video card?

 

[00PS]

whats "back" a video card?

He ment "bake", give the poor guy a break... we've all had our illiterate moments. Anyways, awesome OP, good to see another success story.

 

[Le Creuset]

Oh yeah sorry about that, English isn't my first language, my second either...You can't edit the thread title anymore right?

 

[JayteeBates]

Got a professional oven reflow machine at work gonna see if I can talk the tech into running mine lol.

 

[Astronomica]

I made some ATI cookies myself today as well, if only my luck was as good as yours.

 

[Le Creuset]

I made some ATI cookies myself today as well, if only my luck was as good as yours.

Fried it?

 

[TheGamerZ]

Ohhhhhhhhhhh BAKING

I was like "What the fuck is backing?"

 

[AltTabbins]

Is there water in that dish?

 

[rUmX]

Why does the faucet in the 2nd pic look like a dildo ?

 

[Le Creuset]

Why does the faucet in the 2nd pic look like a dildo ?

You have a dirty mind mate

And no it's just an aluminium oven dish wrapped in foil

 

[rUmX]

You have a dirty mind mate

And no it's just an aluminium oven dish wrapped in foil

Lol I couldn't help it! It just totally stood out for me...

 

[Kangg]

But I'm gonna give ATI a try next time, this should not happen on a 2 year old high end model...

Glad it worked, but your logic is flawed. I don't care who made the card, Cards fail no matter who makes them.

 

[Le Creuset]

Glad it worked, but your logic is flawed. I don't care who made the card, Cards fail no matter who makes them.

I'm sure they do, I blew several ATi X1900 up a few years ago, those things we're bad OC'er so I pretty much decided to give Nvidia a try afterwards and buy high end cards at that time, 350 euro's a piece for Asus GTX260's when they came out. Never needed to OC em and they never ran very hot to, not even in a 3-way SLI. It's a shame really...

And looking at the state of nvidia's endless rebranding and the way to hot fermi cards, I don't wanna risk putting one into my case, besides ATi is going cheap these days

 

[trinibwoy]

Ohhhhhhhhhhh BAKING

I was like "What the fuck is backing?"

Hahahha, same here man, I was confused till I saw the pics.

 

[xp3nd4bl3]

I hear Nvidia cards go well with a nice pinot reduction.

 

[Sikkyu]

gtx260 Om nom nom nom :3

 

[Le Creuset]

I hear Nvidia cards go well with a nice pinot reduction.

They also go well with a bit of pepper and salt and a nice tender steak, to compensate for the crunchy memory chips and the giant **s GT200 chip