Snipe man I have some respect for you but even you should know in the pc world NOTHING is manufactured perfect. Thats like saying well I oced my northbridge and it blew up this board must suck. Its luck of the draw you know this. The only reason your memory should be killing itself is if you are getting artifacts. 1025-1050 is usually a safe bet and above the rated speed of these 40x chips so if your running at 1100 your pushing it and should expect something to break. The qimonda chips arent bad and with a lucky card you can take them past 1100 and with a unlucky card you might not reach 950 they are specced for 900.

My card starts to artifact at 1073 and when I mean artifact I can run ati furrycube for hours without it erroring but if you watch closely there are random yellow dots that pop up but its not bad enough for it to toss the error up so I am happy at 1050 or I need to volt-mod.



As for the poster above with all the questions you can mod the stock heatsink for the backside of the card. I run all day at 825/1050 and the vrm doesnt break 100c even with furmark. The HR mod is great but not needed unless you want too.