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07-09-2008, 06:35 PM
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|  GPU OC question A freind of mine OC'd his gpu, not knowing what he was doing, he OC'd it too much. Temp spikes and crashed.. After reboot, it still stayed OC'd. So as its a dell, and he has the top service package, he called them. They eventually reformatted, guess it was time, but the card won't go back to stock settings. And, i said he was a noob, forgot what he used to OC it.... BTW, this is just from what hes telling me. I haven't actually seen it. As gpus OC by software, why wouldn't after a format the card go back to default. Any suggestions?
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07-09-2008, 06:37 PM
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| Re: GPU OC question The only possible way he could have overclocked it and had it permanently stick through even a format would be to flash the bios of the card. I think something else is going on.
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07-09-2008, 06:41 PM
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| Re: GPU OC question **** youre fast........ Could he hae fried the card? Fortunately, its an older 256Meg card... good reason to upgrade..
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07-09-2008, 06:55 PM
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| Re: GPU OC question Most anything thats been made in the last 5 or so years has builtin failsafes that wont let them burn up using software overclocking. But being that its a dell, i think thats about half of the problem right there.
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07-09-2008, 10:44 PM
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| Re: GPU OC question Hahaa yha, i thought the same dell issue.. But its not a off the shelf model. Its all top stuff.. 3yrs ago.
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