Quote Originally Posted by Mati87 View Post
I've read about a user using a w.b. and he had the same problem, that's where I read that the IHS is the problem. I have the card folding and I can play wic, but I've read that to some people it just dies after 7 days, mine are up on friday, when my GTX 260 replacement comes jeje.
oh farrrkk ! after reading dinos post about w.b fixing it 100% i was like yes cool thats the solution.
then now u tell me someone tried fitting a w.b and the problem remained? man, theres no end to this lol

found this on nv forums-

"Cards that have properly seated heatsinks still overheat... The shim must not be making contact with the core or something, thus it overheats terribly quickly. The fan speed increase makes no difference since the shin probably isn't making proper contact... In my case it took 4-5 seconds to exceed 100C, 20-30 second to shut down from overheating."

man i keep finding more and more threads with this problem, i didnt realize it was so widespread. how can they get away with doing something like this?
this card cost me almost $1k !
ill pull the card apart later ,but i first have to do some research, ie -what the hell is a shim? IHS? etc