Haswell - the silver lining in the cloud

[Gryz]

I had a E8500 and a gtx8800 in a custom water-loop.

I was playing World of Warcraft. In a raid, with 24 other players. We were about to kill a new boss (first boss in Sunwell Plateau, if that means something to you). I had to keep playing, I could not just drop out of the raid.

My GPU-waterblock got clogged. No more water flowing.
Both CPU and GPU heated up to slightly over 100C.
My framerates kept dropping lower and lower.
I kept playing like this for at least half an hour.

Finally I dropped out of the raid.
Checked my stuff, and noticed the 100C+ temperatures.
It turns out my gtx8800 was done for. It had artifacts and lines across the screen.
I had to buy a new videocard.

But the E8500 worked fine.
I used it for another 3 years, until it got replaced last year by a i5-3570K.

 

[joshhedge]

I had a E8500 and a gtx8800 in a custom water-loop.

I was playing World of Warcraft. In a raid, with 24 other players. We were about to kill a new boss (first boss in Sunwell Plateau, if that means something to you). I had to keep playing, I could not just drop out of the raid.

My GPU-waterblock got clogged. No more water flowing.
Both CPU and GPU heated up to slightly over 100C.
My framerates kept dropping lower and lower.
I kept playing like this for at least half an hour.

Finally I dropped out of the raid.
Checked my stuff, and noticed the 100C+ temperatures.
It turns out my gtx8800 was done for. It had artifacts and lines across the screen.
I had to buy a new videocard.

But the E8500 worked fine.
I used it for another 3 years, until it got replaced last year by a i5-3570K.

Did you try re-baking the 8800GTX?