BTW: I just reread my post that started this whole mess.. I should have mentioned that I dont have intentions of " trying this till it fries, then RMA it"
If I blatently kill the card and it is obvious, then I would feel far too guilty to RMA it back to the company. However with the first one, it had problems from day one and while I was doing some measurements on it one night, it just flat died. That I really dont have a problem with RMA.
I should have been more specific; my bad....