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Originally Posted by patrickp
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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Well thus far no BSD.I had to laugh as it was actually reffered to as a symptom on the error sheet I was given.Since when did Blue Screen of Death become an official term to describe hardware failure?
