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Unread 08-05-2008, 05:21 PM   #6
billbartuska
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Default Re: Killed 2 VGA cards

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Originally Posted by ibmkg View Post
Thanks...for ..sympathy.

Memory chips are passively cooled i.e. it's stock. I noticed that memory chips on these cards do not get hot enough during extreme gaming so I let them as they are.

My question: Can GPU die due to overheating? Or will it power down itself like CPU?
Memory chips not needing cooling???? I hope that by passive cooling you are referring to ram sinks.

And no, GPUs neither throttle nor shut down on overheat, they just die.
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