Originally Posted by
dnottis
I know where you are coming from, cause my reply to that email went something like this "if that is true, that is the dumbest thing you guys could have done. With the amount of heat being produced do you really think people aren't going to use third party or water cooling on these???"
They didn't believe most people would change the cooling. The only way I could conceive the card would be able to "sense" that the stock cooler was changed was through the 3-pin fan header. Obviously there is nothing else that would tell the card the cooler was not installed. Alot of emails went back and forth discussing which parts needed cooling and what the failure temperatures were, I thought that information was something that I should share now that I'm not even using an HD4870. That was a direct paste from the email I received though. I hope there isn't a bigger issue and these cards don't all start failing. Maybe I just got really unlucky with the two I had.
Anyways, I'm still hoping you put out a set of sinks for the GT200 series iandh ;) I've had to ghetto chop the 8800GTX mosfet sinks for my GTX 260.