So my GPU just lit on fire

[tweakboy]

Its meant to be, time for a upgrade like a 9800 GT lolololx

 

[Dankk]

Sorry about your card OP. If you're looking for a new passively-cooled card, the ASUS HD 7750 seems to be the best one currently available.

 

[Rvenger]

Sorry about your card OP. If you're looking for a new passively-cooled card, the ASUS HD 7750 seems to be the best one currently available.

Go for the HIS HD 7750 passive variant. Runs super cool

 

[westom]

Most failures are manufacturing defects. Normal temperature for any electronics is a room that is 100 degrees F. However, those same defective electronics might work fine in a 70 degree F room. So many blame only what they are told to blame - ie heat.

A seminconductor is too hot when you touch it and leave skin. Only then is hardware damage a possibility. But temperature causes timing and threshold changes. A warm temperature might cause a software crash. A temporary failure that causes no hardware damage. Then many 'assume' heat causes hardware damage.

Many blame only what they are told to by subjective hearsay. Blame temperature or rumored electrical transients. The source of most failures is a manufacturing defect. That means a product can work for months when the defect finally causes catastrophic damage.

Most defects leave no visual indication. In this case, a manufacturing defect was so catastrophic as to compromise packaging. A classic manufacturing defect. Manufacturing requires extensive use of statistics - that most Americans do not understand. And drive all 'bean counters' out of the plant.

That failed transistor or memory chip is typical of a manufacturing defect. Details are possible only by first identifying each damaged part and how all parts are interconnected. Without those facts, nobody can say anything more.