Quote Originally Posted by Badfastbusa View Post
Something is definitely wrong, you might try a reseat or something...

My best I have got so far stable is 1081/1306 at 1.35v... My core maxed out at 35*C and my hottest VRM got to 65*C... I think I will stick with this overclock, I don't want to push my luck with BC2 coming out tomorrow hehe, its stable, and its a pretty respective overclock IMO.

It still isn't breaking a sweat yet, so i'm sure it will go further.

BTW, this is at 75.8*F ambient temps, and with my san ace 1011 fans at almost silent RPM's, but I have a pretty overkill watercooling setup.
I took down the loop, removed the block and I was right, the contact with the VRMs is terrible. Only 1 VRM seems to have made good contact and all of the ones on the back (rear) of the card (5 or so) did not make any sort of contact really. I re-did all of the block fasteners/bolts to tighten them as much as physically possible, re-applied the paste, put everything together again and did not get any improvement in VRM temperatures at all. Running Furmark 1.8.0 in windowed mode at 1920x1200 with 8x AA on loads the VRMs to 100C in ~2 minutes. This is brutally bad. Check out the screenshot below...

@2 minutes hottest VRM is at 97C and climbing steadily...



Gabe?