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Old 16-09-2005, 00:18   #28
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Re: Blue Screen of Death
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Originally Posted by Incognitas
I quote 'on inspection the Radeon 9700 Graphics card that is fitted is faulty(running hot,causing graphics corruption & blue screens).

Frankly I don't care what was wrong, I just need a graphics card that works for longer than 9 months.

Radeon 9700s need a good cooler anyway as they tend to run hot. Most modern high end graphics cards have GPUs that are probably more powerful than the average CPU was a few years back, and tend to produce a fair bit of heat. If the heatsink is not properly mounted (or has been knocked out of alignment), or if the thermal compound is getting a little old, it's easy to overheat it. In fact, it's easy even if it's just in a badly ventilated case.

But your new GeForce 6600 is probably capable of producing just as much heat. ;-)
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