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Gigabyte Geforce 6800

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imported_DarkPenguin

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I think you could bake bread in my computer case.

When I unlock the pipes they seem to work for a while and then I get more and more corruption. Is this just a sign that I can't do that or is it a sign that I need better cooling in the case to do that?

I seem to be able to over clock the card (Have't tried about 380/760 so far.) with out issue.
 
i have the same card with water cooling. if you need dead quite operation and don't overclock or god forbid you underclock it, the heatpipe is fine, otherwise it is useless. if you put a real cooler on your card it will do well. as far as corruption when unlocking the card, because it doesn't happen initially, it is most likely heat related.

don't waste your card's potential, put some better cooling on it and crank it up. i run the same card at 425/950 w/ everything unlocked.

ps. i have ramsinks on my card and a 120mm fan that turns slowly and silently to cool them. just to see, i have run the card under load at stock speeds with no fan and the ramsinks get hot enough to burn my fingers. imagine how hot they get when the passive heatsink is collecting all that heat from the core and all 8 ram chips (assuming all 8 are making good contact with the heatsink which is unlikely).
 
I'm piecing together a new machine. I'll add a better cooler to the budget. My last card was a HIS 9800 pro with an artic cooling setup. Very quiet with the cooling at normal and I could turn it up if I wanted. It got hot but not like this.
 
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