Tom blows up 5950 Ultra.

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I do still occassionally read Toms.

In his Dual display tests, he managed to blow up a 5950 at stock, even though the Radeon 9800XT showed 85 celsuis and the Geforce 81 celsius.

Quote: "During our tests, we literally fried an NVIDIA FX 5950 Ultra. One moment, the card was running just fine, the next there was a loud bang and it smelled as if something had burned. We will investigate this phenomenon further to rule out the possibility of this being a coincidence."
 
A "loud bang" indicates a capacitor blew up. If it were common, you would read it here and on other boards. I haven't read a post of a blown up capacitor in a very long time.

Capacitors do leak and die, like what happened with Gainward and others from the stolen (and incomplete) dielectric formula fiasco.
 
Well, maybe not too common because there are a rare few people who have the 5950.

Yeah, I'm thinking busted cap too. The smell and off-colour smoke is usually a dead giveaway.
 
Originally posted by ZenOps
Well, maybe not too common because there are a rare few people who have the 5950.
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You're thinking of the 5800 Ultra. That was rare. The 5950 Ultra is pretty common.
 
i have two radeons (7000 methinks) with capacitors busted open - so it's not just nvidia cards doind that. :)

p.s. TOM SUX0RZ A$$
 
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