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Will it make it?
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Posted by: Lord AnthraX

Victim: 7950GT KO 512MB Ram

Incident: Rose to a blistering 118 C when the fan on the VF-900 stoped, noticed when everything to laggy in F.E.A.R, minimized, checked control panel, 118C, Immediate power off. Popped it out of the PCI slot, took off the fan, thermal grease is semi melted. No smell of burning. Put it by the cold window to cool down. Fan is too hot to touch, acctually have a burn on my finger from touching it.

So should it be fine?

Im using my back up 7900GT for now.

Posted by: plant

dayum dude! Thats some harsh **** right there! How come the fan stopped, i wasnt aware zalman had any reliability issues? Good luck with that, hopefully uou noticed it in time

Posted by: b1gapl

That sux, I hope it wasn't at that temperature for too long. Check it out later.

Posted by: Pepsiboy700

Put a new cooler on and stress it. You'll know if something went.

Posted by: Lord AnthraX

Mmm.

Well I wil begin testing with the fan.

I don't know if it was the spot I plugged it into, or the fan it self.

And the scary thing is, It must have been like this for at least 5 minutes, because the game got pretty laggy, but I thought it was becuase of the water (Intensive?) and I let it slip. Then I looked down, I saw the fan stop spinning, I saw the temp and yeah.

Posted by: Deathawk

I think it'll make it, but maybe I'm just an optimist. It [i]was[/i] working when it was at the 120 degrees, I guess.

Posted by: aspire.comptech

wow **** **** man...

I dont tihnk anything in my computer has ever gone above the 60C mark

In all seriousness, that heatsink shouldnt have gotten that hot even passively cooled...

Posted by: Lord AnthraX

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by aspire.comptech [/i]
[B]wow **** **** man...

I dont tihnk anything in my computer has ever gone above the 60C mark

In all seriousness, that heatsink shouldnt have gotten that hot even passively cooled... [/B][/QUOTE]

That's what I told my self.

But see I have a feeling the fan stopped long before I even started F.E.A.R, and it just started getting hotter and hotter until it lagged like crazy and I checked.

First time I have had any part of mine go over 60C as well.

Posted by: Sora

I think that it didn't hurt it as long as it wasn't at that temperature for too long. I've seen GPU cards go over 100 C for a few seconds and still work just fine later on.

Posted by: turtile

As long as it stayed under 120C is should be fine.

Posted by: Apokalipse

the only way to know for sure is actually try it

Posted by: joshd

shouldnt be a problem. G71 core slowdown isnt untill 125*C. look at the 7900GTxs, many of them load at a good 110*C all the time. they are OK.

good luck with that, anyway. :D