Originally posted by: ajaidevsingh
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
This has "joke thread" written all over it. Here let me try:
"Hi guys, I bought a Qx9770 on my credit card, and realized it was probably a dumb use of $1500. So to test it, I put 1.7v through it with no heat-sink. It started smoking and beeping during POST, so I decided to try 1.9v. Guess what? It doesnt work AT ALL anymore. Can someone help me figure out if it is really burned out?"
Well its no joke "I hope my card is not just playing dead"
And i did a mod after i saw the lack of performance of a 3870 X2 in respect to 9800 GX2 "Thats how i came to the conclusion that the money spend on 3870 X2 could have gotton 9800 GTX SLi!!
1.44 v has been used befour as for the cooler its water cooled. I read a thread where the user upped the voltage till 1.5 v @ 1ghz core with water cooling. The thing did not Beep or smoke.
The thing with vmods on videocards is that when you increase the voltage of the gpu, you will also increase the voltage of the power regulators and maybe some other components from the PCB. So even if you have a very low temperature on the GPU, those other components might get very hot, or might not like at all higher voltage then that they were designed for. The card is just as dead with a burned transistor then it is with a dead GPU.
It's best to increase the voltage just a bit, to make sure that your card will live long enough until the next upgrade.
Of course, the biggest mistake you've made was that you only took ATI tool artifact scanner seriously. ATI tool is a very good instrument for detecting instability, but games tend to be better at this. So if Crysis gave you artifacts, it was pretty clear that the card was not stable at all, so further increasing the clocks just made things worse.
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