His might be like mine where that chip is weak on one part of it and it is causing his flakyness. I have never had a chip piece come off with my heatsink like that, ever, it had to have been a faulty chip from the get go and this issue had haunted me forever so... I will establish if my system is more stabe now that, that card is out of the equation tonight when I get home and get to actually play some with the one that is left in it right now that I didn't want to touch until I get the other one back from RMA.