AND IT IS WORKING GREAT!!! Actually it is running about 15 degrees cooler then before i did .
385f doesn't melt the plastic connectors?
Microwave it, if you really want to impress people.
I baked my 8800GTS 640mb FOUR TIMES in the row. Sometimes in a gas oven, and sometimes in a Black & Decker toaster oven. The card was still going strong 4 years and counting. I am sure I could have continued to bake it every time it would start acting up, but for some funny reason, after the 4th bake it was working perfectly for months, with no end in sight. Apparently 4th time was the charm. Anyway, I ended up selling it on ebay for $130, (which I regret, because a card like this might have lasted a lifetime) and it's still working in the buyer's PC with no issues whatsoever.
poor video card: "I am aged, please put me in the junk box master."
master: "NEVER! You either keep serving me hard, or be killed in the oven!"
When do you know when is the time to bake the card? Is it:
a) When you feel hungry?
b) When you lose a game?
c) When there is a lag spike?
d) When you feel bored?
e) When you start seeing smokes coming from the card?
or f) When you really want a new card?
poor video card: "I am aged, please put me in the junk box master."
master: "NEVER! You either keep serving me hard, or be killed in the oven!"
to OP, you lucky your baked board didn't cause any electrical problem with your machine, it could possibly blow up the PSU and put the rest of the gears in danger. but lucky you.
Maybe if you had a no-name PSU. Real PSUs have protection circuits. Unless you have a PSU designed to output >100 amps on a single rail, its only a semi-short, AND it has bad over current regulation there really isn't much harm in short circuiting a PSU.to OP, you lucky your baked board didn't cause any electrical problem with your machine, it could possibly blow up the PSU and put the rest of the gears in danger. but lucky you.