The day couldn't start better...
Turned on my PC with my 9800GT in it, unknowing about this issue at hand after just installing the drivers some nights before (first time I fired up the comp with the new drivers), went to get coffee in the morning as I usually do during the computer start-up, I come back and the card's dead.
Tried to wait 15 mins for it to cool down, but it was to no avail. The fan goes up to 100% in the beginning, but the screen will not display anything except the usual "no signal".

I'm really starting to doubt the fact that Nvidia drivers are better than ATi, because it just fried my god damn card.