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11-05-2007, 01:02 PM
Hi,
Some of the Ram chips are faulty on my Sapphire X1950XT 256mb.I can only see the post screen for 5 seconds after that the screen gets full of artifacts and vertical green lines.Probably one of the Ram chips is faulty.I didn't even Overclock and the Gpu and Ambient temperature didn't exeed
40C (celsius).
So it's not my fault that the card has died.
The problem is that I removed the stock cooler and used watercooling.
But of course I cooled the Gpu+Ram chips.So the ram didn't die because of heat.
I have the stock cooler but not the original thermal pads,I lost them,the pink ones as seen in the picture:
http://www.tekbunker.com/images/stories/Reviews/X1950XT/DSC00036.jpg
What if I buy normal white aftermarket thermal peds and RMA the card?
Like this ones...
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ArcticCooling/AcceleroX2/images/installation2.jpg
Will be the warranty void?I hope not...
There isn't even one scratch on the card,the screws are ok,the are no signs
that the stock cooler was ever removed.
Sorry for my ''simple English'' I'm trying my best...
Some of the Ram chips are faulty on my Sapphire X1950XT 256mb.I can only see the post screen for 5 seconds after that the screen gets full of artifacts and vertical green lines.Probably one of the Ram chips is faulty.I didn't even Overclock and the Gpu and Ambient temperature didn't exeed
40C (celsius).
So it's not my fault that the card has died.
The problem is that I removed the stock cooler and used watercooling.
But of course I cooled the Gpu+Ram chips.So the ram didn't die because of heat.
I have the stock cooler but not the original thermal pads,I lost them,the pink ones as seen in the picture:
http://www.tekbunker.com/images/stories/Reviews/X1950XT/DSC00036.jpg
What if I buy normal white aftermarket thermal peds and RMA the card?
Like this ones...
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ArcticCooling/AcceleroX2/images/installation2.jpg
Will be the warranty void?I hope not...
There isn't even one scratch on the card,the screws are ok,the are no signs
that the stock cooler was ever removed.
Sorry for my ''simple English'' I'm trying my best...