Quote Originally Posted by Jamesrt2004 View Post
sorry shoggy but we did see with the 48XX they do reach those temps etc.. and a lot of cards died from it :/ so its hard to just try dismiss it
We sold many 4870 cards with pre-assembled blocks. Most of them were tested by myself and the VRM temperature was always far away from anything critical. My current system has one of the first 4870 which is still alive
I also can not remember that we ever got a card back with burned VRMs.