Nvidia + Starcraft 2 Beta = roasted card?

JLuchinski

JLuchinski

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Well after months and months of waiting, I opened up my email and there it was, an invite to the Starcraft 2 Beta! After countless updates, I finally got on and about 10 minutes into the round, I noticed my fan was getting louder. 5 minutes after that, it was louder then when I max out Crysis. Another 5 minutes I couldn't take it anymore, quit, checked my GPU temp, 98 degrees celcius. I read somewhere that the beta was roasting Nvidia cards, so I guess it's true. So happy I'm picking up a 5850 this weeked. Anyone else experience this?
 
Have you replaced the tim on your card? That will probably knock 10 degrees off at load(provided you use good tim like mx2) I don't think my gtx 285's ever got that hot, even when I vmodded them and put them under furmark
 
Noob question, what's the tim on my card? I took it apart, blew out the dust and re-applied the thermal paste, made about a 2 degree difference. It doesn't matter though, I'm getting a 5850 and selling the 285 this weekend.
 
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JLuchinski said:
Noob question, what's the tim on my card? I took it apart, blew out the dust and re-applied the thermal paste, made about a 2 degree difference. It doesn't matter though, I'm getting a 5850 and selling this bad boy this weekend.
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what kind of tim did you use?
 
Well, the notepad thing worked. So I waited 10+ years to play the first Starcraft with better graphics and a couple of new units? Boring.
 
Well I got a 5850, beats the crap out of the 285. And a guy wants to trade his 5870 for my 285, can't wait to crossfire these bad boys.
 
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